question: how much info fits in a field?

[J. Landman Gay]

Andre Garzia wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I am using a field to record TCP Flow on a given port on my system by  
> redirecting tcpflow app using appleEvents which makes much easier to  
> debug CGI apps since all traffic is inside a nice field, the problem  
> is, how much info can I dump into a field, I am loggin all traffic,  so 
> after couple hours browsing, I might have tons of megs, so what is  the 
> maximum ammount a field can handle before I need to dump the log  to a 
> file?

The maximum is about 4 gigs. But long before that, stack performance can 
slow dramatically. I'd dump the text much earlier.

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