* Did you test how many open files you can have simultaneously? Maybe it is enough for you to just dump to the files directly, maybe it can be extended until it is enough. If you store everything in a hash you have to think about the memory limit. Do all the PCAP files fit into memory? If not, maybe you have to write to file inbetween whenever memory is nearly full.

* I don't get why you would use random keys for the hash. If you use random keys you might as well use a simple array where the array index is the not-that-random "key". I'm talking about %sip, that should be @sip instead (or removed completely, see below)

* What you do in your final step (when there is already a key $callid in main_has) is not working. Whenever you do "$main_hash{$callid} = {increase() => $value}", you are overwriting aka initializing the previous hash there with a new hash, not adding a value! The right form would be "$main_hash{$callid}{increase()}= $value"

* I don't see any reason why you do that inserting into $main_hash in two steps? Why not add to the main_hash in process_sip itself instead of using the extraneous %sip hash

In reply to Re: dumping hashes to pcap files by jethro
in thread dumping hashes to pcap files by bigmoose

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