From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 14 06:50:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC6616A4CE for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 06:50:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.mail.ru (mx2.mail.ru [194.67.23.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917CE43D1F for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 06:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schizik@mail.ru) Received: from [195.96.167.130] (port=61213 helo=[192.168.2.104]) by mx2.mail.ru with esmtp id 1BOd4Z-0007AH-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:49:59 +0400 From: Schizik Organization: Special Threatment Facility for Mentally Sick Perverts To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:48:56 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405141748.56755.schizik@mail.ru> X-Spam: Not detected Subject: Ethereal: memory leak? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:50:01 -0000 Hello everyone! I have just noticed that ethereal eats a lot of memory. Currently it has no capture running and no file loaded. Previous analyzied file was about 56Mbytes. But it was closed. Is this behavior normal? Mem: 111M Active, 15M Inact, 46M Wired, 6820K Cache, 28M Buf, 564K Free Swap: 384M Total, 331M Used, 53M Free, 86% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 6201 lxxx 96 0 298M 92316K select 3:07 0.00% 0.00% ethereal Cheers, Alex.