Hi Krishnamurthy,

Wireshark uses an executable called dumpcap to perform the actual capture.  You 
can use dumpcap directly from the command line, and as dumpcap doesn’t build 
the structures that Wireshark builds you won’t have a memory problem.  You can 
then view the resulting pcapng file with Wireshark in the normal way.

You can find more information here - 
https://community.tribelab.com/course/view.php?id=10 – including a video 
explaining the use of dumpcap.

Best regards…Paul

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Krishnamurthy Mayya
Sent: 29 January 2018 09:21
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <[email protected]>; 
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] One quick question

Okay.
So, If I am sending continuos stream of data at the line rate(1gb/s) and if I 
am using wireshark to capture the content, it will crash after sometime
due to memory exhaustion. Is there any way to bypass this ? (Any free 
function/some other work around)
Any suggestion from your side would be extremely helpful. Thanks in advcane

Regards,
Krishnamurthy mayya


On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:05 PM, Guy Harris 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Jan 8, 2018, at 5:29 AM, Krishnamurthy Mayya 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

> epan_get_frame_ts
>
> Like the above function, is there any utility function in wireshark which 
> fress the memory allocated for the given frame_num ?

Are you assuming that epan_get_frame_ts() returns a pointer to a 
freshly-allocated structure that must be freed when the caller no longer needs 
it?

If so, no, it doesn't.  You do not need to free the structure.
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