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Oh, we had this type of issue ("logging lib breaks everything") with a $MSFT logging library. Imagine having 100 threads each with their own logging buffer of 300MB. Needless to say it annihilated our memory and our server crashed, even on the most expensive sku of Azure App Service.

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Brilliant strategy.

Reminds me a litte of the oldtimers trick of adding a sleep(1000) somewhere so they could later come back and have some resources later, or if they needed a quick win with the client.

Now cloud companies are using malloc(300000000) it to fake resource usage. /s

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