Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Memory leak with 0.10.13 "-R" option

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:24:05 +0100
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:34:17AM +1100, Sadin Nurkic wrote:
> I have done this before very easily under older versions, but with
> 0.10.13, there seems to be a new issue where it is eating memory and
> in a few min there is a Gig used and the machine runs out of memory.
> Ethereal crashes with message along the lines of "unable to allocate
> XYZ block of memory".

Ah, we changed one thing in either in .13 or .14: By default many
protocols are now stateful by default, and if you want them to be
otherwise you will have to turn this off explicietely.

Maybe that helps?

 Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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