Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Date and Time of Day conversion sloowwww

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From: "Jeremy M. Guthrie" <jeremy.guthrie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:15:10 -0600
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On Wednesday 17 December 2003 03:59 pm, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2003, at 6:59 AM, Jeremy M. Guthrie wrote:
> > Is there some switch I need to pass ethereal so I can view traces with
> > date
> > and time of day without having to wait 20 minutes for it to filter?
>
> Either
>
> 	1) start Ethereal with the flag "-t ad":
This worked, now why would passing ethereal the flag allow it to load it just 
fine but loading it, then changing options turn it into a 45 minute job?

>
> 	2) start up Ethereal, select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu,
> select "Columns", select the "Time" column", change "Column format:" to
> "Absolute date and time", click "Save", click "OK", exit Ethereal, and
> restart Ethereal - that'll set your column preferences so that the time
> stamp is always displayed as date and time of day (regardless of what
> you set it to from the command line or the GUI, so do that only if you
> *always* want it displayed that way).
My Hardware:  P4 2ghz 500K frames.

How I'm doing it:
1.  open up ethereal
2.  load capture(takes 10-15 seconds)
3.  select view
4.  click options
5.  click radio button for Date and Time of Day
6.  Wait a half hour

Other symptoms:
It flies for the first few 10-20K worth of packets and then gets almost
exponentially slower the farther along it gets.


> > 0.10.0a
> > is faster but I have a 50MB trace that has been converting for over 30
> > minutes and is only 48% done.
>
> The next release might have some further improvements (at least for
> GTK+ 1.2[.x] versions), and some future release might make it take next
> to no time (the latter wouldn't be a trivial change).

- -- 
Jeremy M. Guthrie
Systems Engineer
Berbee
5520 Research Park Dr.
Madison, WI  53711
Phone:  608-298-1061

Berbee...Decade 1.  1993-2003
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