Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1419] dumpcap keeps running after Wireshark crashes

Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:05:16 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1419


ulf.lamping@xxxxxx changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|memory accumulates after    |dumpcap keeps running after
                   |restart and dumpcap*        |Wireshark crashes




------- Comment #1 from ulf.lamping@xxxxxx  2007-03-10 11:05 GMT -------
Well, first of all, putting two bugs into one bug report is a very bad idea and
makes individual traces of the two bugs hard to get - especially when the
report get's older.

1) There may be memory leaks, but a bug report at this level won't help a lot.
In addition, WS won't release all memory for speedup reasons. And in addition
to this, the Windows mechanisms to get the memory consumption of an application
(task manager) is simply lying - don't really trust it!
Unless someone takes a much deeper look into this, I'll take this one as
WONTFIX.

2) Yes, this is a bug which should be fixed. If Wireshark is running out of
memory it should (at least try to) close dumpcap - which it currently does not.

I've changed the summary accordingly.


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