I found the "etherXXXX" file in temp directory, which is over 1GB. I tried
to load it with Wireshark. It expected at least 30min to load.
But the same error happens again after 10min and only 20% packets were
loaded.

Then I tried again and watched in Task Manager that the PF usage kept
increasing until almost 100%. It crashed again as about 20% loaded.

So it's most likely a 'out of memory'?

I haven't tried 1.0.5. I may try it later...

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Guy Harris <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Feb 4, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Bill Meier wrote:
>
> > My first guess would be "out of memory".
>
> Although for that I'd expect either
>
>        1) "Access violation reading location 0x00000000" (or some other
> small value), i.e. a null-pointer dereference from something that did
> a malloc() and didn't check whether it succeeded
>
> or
>
>        2) an assertion failure message from g_malloc() calling abort() on
> failure (I think abort() failures turn up as a unique type of failure
> on Windows).
>
> Is there an "etherXXXXXX" file, for some value of "XXXXXX", in your
> (Joshua's) temporary file directory?  (I forget where Windows hides
> the per-user temporary file directory.)  If so, does Wireshark crash
> if you try to read it?
>
> (Also, what happens with Wireshark 1.0.5, the current version?)
>
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