Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem with Ring-Buffer-Mode

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:37:05 -0700
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:09:37PM +0200, Georg E. Paulusberger wrote:
> When I call tethereal with '-a filesize:60000 -b 100'
> tethereal only creates 10 files in the log directory and not those 100
> which I specified with the -b option!

The ringbuffer code imposes a limit of 10 files.  I think they did that
in order not to try to open more files than the OS, including the I/O
library, was willing to keep open simultaneously; perhaps it's a lower
limit than it needs to be.