Puzzled about stack size

[Rob Cozens]

>This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. A stack that was about 150K
>suddenly became 3MB. It turned out that I was saving all my logging data in
>a particular field and it was just growing and growing. When I cleared out
>that field the saved stack size returned to just 150K.

Likewise in durability testing SDB: inspired by a conversation with 
Jacque Gay, I wrote an auto test handler that issues a random db 
command every two seconds and logs the command and the result in a 
field so there is an "audit trail" available for debugging.

Problem was (a) since I continually added to the audit trail but 
never deleted entries, the test had to fail at some point by 
exceeding max field size or max RAM available and (b) the failure was 
generating a "connection is dead" message.  So I kept looking through 
Jan's libIPC for "connection problems" that went away once the light 
dawned and I added logic to remove the oldest line upon adding the 
100th and subsequent lines.
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Rob Cozens
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