Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Bandwidth tracking and Error messages

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From: Laryn Bakker <lpb@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:08:22 -0400
Good afternoon! I'm new to Ethereal (and to Xterm, etc), but I've managed--with great help from Guy Harris--to get Ethereal running on my Mac OS X machine. I've been researching the documentation and have figured out how to filter the capture on ports to capture only pop3, smtp, imap, and http, but the files are still enormous. They do provide very useful info, though. One other task I wonder if Ethereal can do, is to become a bandwidth tracker--is there any way to instruct the program to just keep track of how much gets put through each port?

Also, the program seems to crash on me semi-regularly. Two messages from Xterm are below:

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=131072) failed with 4294966995
*** malloc[18035]: error: Can't allocate region
mach_port_type() failed (ipc/mig) wrong reply message ID
task_get_bootstrap_port() failed (ipc/mig) wrong reply message ID
Abort
[srv13:/sw/bin] root# ethereal

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=131072) failed with 4294966995
*** malloc[18418]: error: Can't allocate region
mach_port_type() failed (ipc/rcv) msg too large
task_get_bootstrap_port() failed (ipc/mig) wrong reply message ID
Abort

Has anyone seen this message before, or have an idea about tracking bandwidth with Ethereal?

Thanks a ton!

Laryn