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.