loosing memory

[Robert Brenstein]

I have a field in which I keep log of activities. The number of lines is fixed -- as a new line is added on top, a line is deleted on the bottom. In essence:

delete last line of fld "log"
put txt & return before fld "log"

MC 2.4.3 keeps adding* 0.4-0.5 mb of ram for each such a log entry, eventually using up all free memory and crashing the server. To make things confusing, when I take the same function and run it in a test stack, the same memory loss is not occuring.

The function does a few other things (like appending the log entry to the file), but commenting out the lines that write to the visible field eliminates the memory loss (commenting out the file writing code makes no change).

Anyone has any ideas what might be going on?

Robert Brenstein

*) This is under Mac OS Classic, so "adding" means that the total memory partition allocated to MC keeps increasing at th expense of free memory.
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