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Generating very large pcaps fails #62

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bklang opened this issue Feb 13, 2014 · 0 comments
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Generating very large pcaps fails #62

bklang opened this issue Feb 13, 2014 · 0 comments

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bklang commented Feb 13, 2014

Right now we construct the entire PCAP in memory before writing to disk. This consumes a huge amount of memory (over 1GB was consumed attempting to generate 6,000 seconds). We should instead write out the packets as we go.
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