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

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From: Sadin Nurkic <sadin.nurkic@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:57:02 +1100
Hi,

How exactly do you turn off the stateful-ness?

BTW, this is the error message:

GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate 10485760 bytes
aborting...
Aborted

Regards,
Sadin



>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?