Re: [Wireshark-dev] dumpcap memory usage during 802.11 capture

2010-06-17 Thread Bill Meier
David Seares wrote: > Hi, > > Probably a stupid question about dumpcaps memory usage. > > I am trying to capture packets over a long period of time, splitting > captures over multiple files each 5 minutes. > > I noticed that after just 12 hours of capturing the memory usage (vmem) of > dumpcap h

[Wireshark-dev] dumpcap memory usage during 802.11 capture

2010-06-17 Thread David Seares
Hi, Probably a stupid question about dumpcaps memory usage. I am trying to capture packets over a long period of time, splitting captures over multiple files each 5 minutes. I noticed that after just 12 hours of capturing the memory usage (vmem) of dumpcap had reached 8GB. Is this expected? As