Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Large memory footprint

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From: Chris Robertson <Chris.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:47:25 -0700
> A quick follow-up note on this.  I found that if I run Ethereal on a
remote
> machine and then pipe the display back to my workstation the memory
> requirements are cut roughly in half.  For example the capture that was
> requiring 600MB of RAM when running locally would only require 300MB when
> run on a remote machine and not significantly more RAM on my local machine
> for the display.  I observed this on a couple of Redhat 7.2 so your milage
                                                            ^^^
                                                           systems

Gah, I'll remember how to compose sentences one of these days...

Chris