Anders Broman wrote: > Hi, > Experimenting loading the file there is 163 calls to VirtualAlloc() > ~1.630 GB memory used > Changing > #define EMEM_ALLOCS_PER_CHUNK (EMEM_PACKET_CHUNK_SIZE / 512) > to: > #define EMEM_ALLOCS_PER_CHUNK (EMEM_PACKET_CHUNK_SIZE / 64) > > Gives only 26 VirtualAlloc() so it seems like we waist a huge amount of > memory... > 15 VirtualAlloc() with 32 bytes. > > Is there a reason not to change to: > #define EMEM_ALLOCS_PER_CHUNK (EMEM_PACKET_CHUNK_SIZE / 32) ? >
A data point: A few days ago while working on bug #2375 I noticed that on Windows that if I defined the env logicals to not use se_alloc & etc that *much* less memory was required to load a capture. (20% of that used with se_alloc & etc ? I don't quite remember). I haven't yet tried this on Linux. Bill ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
