Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Memory leaks in Ethereal

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:53:39 -0800
Ulf Lamping wrote:


These are no memory leaks!

Ethereal needs to keep information of the previous packets in order
to  dissect the next packets correctly.
He was capturing without "Update list of packets in real time", so there shouldn't have been any dissection done, so that information shouldn't have been in memory.
Now, if you *stop* the capture, Ethereal will *then* read in the capture, and it'll run out of memory at that point.