[didier <dgautheron@xxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 06 octobre 2009 ￜ 15:30 -0400, Jeff Morriss a ￜcrit :

> Trying that on Linux (64-bit) with a capture file of mine, I get (all 
> with SVN 30347, new packet list):
> 
> (no env settings)
> CPU time ("user time" from 'times'): 40.491 seconds
> VSZ (from ps aux): 995,644
> 
> With WIRESHARK_DEBUG_SE_NO_CHUNKS set:
> CPU time: 43.048 seconds
> VSZ: 1,128,076
> 
> With WIRESHARK_DEBUG_EP_NO_CHUNKS and WIRESHARK_DEBUG_SE_NO_CHUNKS set:
> CPU time: 48.536 seconds
> VSZ: 1,120,308
> 
> 
> (It's a bit odd that memory usage goes up when chunks are off.)
In this case wireshark allocates a emem_chunk_t (28 bytes on a 32bits
system) for each ep/se_alloc call.
 
> 
> Maybe Windows doesn't like big (10Mb) allocations?  Another thing is
Maybe an option would be to replace it with g_malloc.

Didier