Are you in promiscuous mode? That consumes more.
On 3/25/10, János Löbb <janos.lobb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought that when I dedicate a file for the capture, the program
> will not run out of memory, but rather from time to time writes the
> captured data to this file. Yesterday I tried to capture as much as I
> could on a PC with windows XP SP3 on it using WireShark 1.2.6 but
> after some 20 minutes the program stopped and told it is out of
> memory. The data was in the file, but even after restarting the PC I
> was unable to open it. WireShark again posted an out of memory
> message. Looks to me that Wireshark wants to read all the content
> into real memory and it fails. The size of the file is 321.9MB. The
> machine is a 1.4Ghz Pentium 4 with 384MB of RAM
>
> Is there any setting I can change to be able to open the file and work
> with it ? How folks are doing lengthier captures, like multiple hours ?
>
> Thanks ahead,
>
> János
>
>
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