On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 05:07:19PM -0400, Evan Huus wrote: > After Kurt's recent post I dug up an old patch I'd played with and cleaned > it up a bit. It still needs some work (documentation at the very least) but > [1] should add a -Z option to tshark which turns on "stateless" dissection. > You lose reassembly and all that, but you should get no memory growth at > all. > > The implementation is a bit of a hack in that stateless dissection still > does all the stateful work, it just throws it away after each packet (so > stateless is actually slightly slower than stateful) but it seems to work > in my simple tests. > > Does this seem useful to people? Ideas for a better flag (Z just happened > to be handy)? Other thoughts, comments, suggestions?
How about having the cake and eating it (at least partially)? What I am thinking about is something like keeping state but only for the last 1000 (insert your favourite number here) packets and only *then* throwing it away. Or is this unrealistic? Ciao Jörg -- Joerg Mayer <[email protected]> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
