On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Dario Lombardo <[email protected]
> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Evan Huus <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> It's dependant on platform and setup, but I'll assume a from-source build
>> on Linux. In theory all you have to do is prefix your normal command with
>> "libtool --mode=execute valgrind --tool=massif" and then the usual ./tshark
>> etc.
>>
>> Valgrind takes a bunch more memory though, so you'll almost certainly
>> want to use editcap to split the capture, and then run this on just a
>> subset.
>>
>> It will produce an output file massif.out.PID which you can pass to the
>> ms_print command for human-readable output. That output would be useful to
>> us.
>>
>>
> I'm attaching the output. I've run it on a 1GB pcap file.
>

Thanks, though I'm afraid I forgot something :(
We usually use the ./tools/valgrind-wireshark.sh script which sets a couple
of environment variables to make the output more useful. I didn't mention
it, because the helper script doesn't currently support extra flags (like
the -Y and -w) you used. If you could set the following environment
variables and run again, that would be appreciated:
export WIRESHARK_DEBUG_EP_NO_CHUNKS=
export WIRESHARK_DEBUG_SE_NO_CHUNKS=
export WIRESHARK_DEBUG_WMEM_OVERRIDE=simple
export G_SLICE=always-malloc

Alternatively, you could just run "./tools/valgrind-wireshark.sh -m
capture.pcap". It will take care of all of the environment stuff, and the
libtool prefix etc, but it won't run with the -w or -Y flags. I expect the
output to be more-or-less the same, but I'm not sure of that.

Thanks again,
Evan

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