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Wireshark 1.6.7 crashing in Windows 2008

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Hi:

I downloaded wireshark 1.6.7 for windows (32 bits). I am running it in a Windows 2008(32 bits) virtual machine (The hypervisor is Hyper-V)

After a period of running wireshark making a capture, it crashes with the following error:

Faulting application wireshark.exe, version 1.6.7.41973, time stamp 0x4f7f4286, faulting module libglib-2.0-0.dll, version 2.28.8.0, time stamp 0x4e253544, exception code 0x40000015, fault offset 0x0004c2d8, process id 0xb74, application start time 0x01cd26dd6a840d67.

The version is Version 1.6.7 (SVN Rev 41973 from /trunk-1.6)

Any ideas / suggestions

Regards

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asked 30 Apr '12, 09:54

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2 Answers:

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Depending upon the length of "a period of running" and the amount of data collected, one possibility:

OutOfMemory

answered 30 Apr '12, 10:39

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Hi,

I can create a very similar error message if I run a 32 Bit version of Wireshark on Windows 7 64 Bit and open a file larger 2 GByte (a lot HTTP, which obviously consumes quite some memory).

As already mentioned, it looks like an OutOfMemory problem. Try to use ring buffers.

Regards
Kurt

answered 30 Apr '12, 13:45

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