Guy Harris wrote: > Ravi Kondamuru wrote: > >> My question: >> Is there a known limit on the number of packets that wireshark can deal >> with in a single file? > > The number of packets that Wireshark (or, I suspect, any network > analyzer) can deal with is limited; due to a number of factors, the GUI > widget used to implement the packet list display being one of them (it > allocates a string for the text value in every column, which eats a lot > of memory), Wireshark's limit might be lower than some other analyzers. > > This is not a limit saying something such as "Wireshark can't read more > than 1,227,399 packets"; the point at which it'd run out of memory > depends on the contents of the packets.
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