Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9114] Memory not released when starting a new capture w/o

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:27:47 +0000

changed bug 9114

What Removed Added
Status UNCONFIRMED RESOLVED
CC   [email protected]
Resolution --- NOTABUG

Comment # 1 on bug 9114 from 
Wireshark intentionally does not free all the memory it had allocated when
closing a capture file.  It uses its own memory allocator which allows it to
keep (rather large) blocks of memory around for later re-use (when that happens
the memory allocator marks all the memory as "freed" but you won't be able to
see that from any OS utilities: they will simply report Wireshark has still
having allocated however much memory).  Not freeing that memory is an
optimization to avoid having to re-allocate that memory again when the next
file is read.

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