Hi What is the meaning of wireshark crash?? does it mean that wireshark stopped and can't save the captured data, or it means the software itself is carshed and it doesn't work any more? what are the common mistakes that cause the crash other than running wireshark for along time (Briefly). Thanks asked 05 Dec '12, 04:10  Leena |
One Answer:
Wireshark crash normaly refers to the application having an unrecoverable error and being terminated by the OS. The most common reasons beeing SW bugs or out-of-memory (out-of-memory may be caused by a bug). If this happens during capturing the temporary capture file can be recoverd from the temp directory up to the point of the crash or close to. No user action other than capturing enough data to cause out-of-memory should crash Wireshark. answered 05 Dec '12, 04:23  Anders ♦ |
does it mean that if a crash takes place I should download and install wireshark again
no, it means that you captured too much data in a single take. Just restart Wireshark and capture less data, or capture data into multiple files (see the capture options dialog).
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