On Sep 24, 2003, at 12:35 PM, Clayton Mascarenhas wrote:
The first message box states
" Your system is out of virtual memory. To ensure that windows runs
properly increase the size of your virtual memeory paging system"
The second message box states
"GLib-ERROR ** : could not allocate 8192 bytes. Aborting .."
The third message box states
"Runtime Error! Program c:\Program files\Ethereal\ethereal.exe
abnormal program terminating"
The file is too large for those versions of Ethereal to handle on your
machine as currently configured.
I always get the same three message boxes for each version.
However when I installed ..
Ethereal 0.9.9 - gets stuck
Ethereal 0.9.10a - gets stuck
Ethereal 0.9.13a - loads upto 20%
No message boxes here for these versions.
There might be a bug somewhere in a dissector so that it goes into an
infinite loop before it runs out of memory (that bug might not be in
the earlier versions, e.g. because it's in a dissector that wasn't in
those earlier versions, or because of a change to some dissector).
What should I do ? What do they mean by increase your virtual memory
pagin file? Do I need to increase the RAM size?
That might help, but so might increasing the size of the paging file on
your machine. (I'm not sitting in front of a Windows machine right
now, so I can't tell you how to do that, as I don't remember how to do
that and don't have a Windows machine on which to look at the UI.)
That's what "increas[ing] the size of your virtual memory paging
system" means.