RE: [Ethereal-users] Large memory footprint

[Chris Robertson <Chris.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, just realized that input.file could be a bit ambiguous... that's the
file I'm opening in Ethereal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Robertson [mailto:Chris.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:45 PM
> To: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Large memory footprint
> 
> 
> A quick question, I'm loading faily large capture files (created with
> tcpdump -w <input.file>, between 100MB-400MB, up to millions 
> packets) into
> Ethereal and I'm getting a memory footprint of 600MB to just 
> under 1GB.  Is
> this normal?  Also, Ethereal is single threaded, correct?  
> Ie. it's not
> going to touch my second CPU.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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