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List:       ethereal-users
Subject:    Re: [Ethereal-users] About ethereal.
From:       Guy Harris <guy () netapp ! com>
Date:       2000-10-25 18:49:35
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> My question is until when do the ethereal can examinate in mega bytes?
> Why I can problem to open a file of 1GB.

Probably because the GTK+ object that Ethereal uses to display the list
of packets allocates memory for the contents of every column in the
display; this takes a lot of memory if you have a lot of packets, and a
1GB capture fill will have a lot of packets.

This will probably be fixed eventually, but it's not easy to fix.

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