On Dec 12, 2011, at 1:18 PM, abhinav narain wrote: > Its KB then, because the router has 64MB RAM > So, it means, I am filling the buffer almost always.
No, what it means is "the process running your application has a 9.3MB virtual address space", which says nothing about how much RAM it's using or about what's happening with the libpcap buffer when you're capturing. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
