Mike Tisdell wrote: > Dev, > > Wireshark crashes regularly when I try to load large capture files (over > 100MB) on my FreeBSD system. I am currently using Wireshark > wireshark-0.99.4_1, and FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, but I have seen this problem > through several version of Wireshark, and under previous version of FreeBSD. > > The output from the gdb backtrace is: > > Core was generated by `wireshark'. > Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. > #0 0x29e7eebf in ?? () > (gdb) > > > Is there any additional information that might be helpful in tracking down > this problem?
Well, this might help: http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory Is Wireshark printing anything to stdout/stderr when it crashes for you? I thought I read recently (in SVN) that there's been some improvement in the printout (to make it clearer when it's run out of memory), but I'm not sure about that. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
