[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Please note, that Ethereal isn't the best tool for long term capturing, 
> as it will consume increasing amount of memory and will crash if it's 
> running out of it (see http://wiki.ethereal.com/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory).

If you're not doing an "Update list of packets in real time" capture, it 
shouldn't consume memory as it captures - although it *will* consume 
memory when you stop the capture and it reads it in.