So, i was running into issues with SharePoint EBE Blog Template and an error of out of memory. 

 

You might have noticed a:

Failed to render control: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.

 

Took some time to diagnose, but I noticed that it was where the links section should be.   I checked the list, linkbacks sent, and there was none.  I went into linkbacks received and there was 138,000 spam linkbacks.   Tried to edit the list in access, but ran into issues doing that.

 

Tried to use Clear SharePoint List Items and that ran into out of memory.  Tried to use Tobias Zimmergren's delete EBE comments tool, and also ran into memory issues...  Tried to use the SharePoint sp purge list tool and it was working but deleting about 1000 entires in 12 hours... which would take forever to delete...

 

So, instead I backed up the database, and then made the Linkbacks Received list a template.  Deleted the list.   Re-created a new list from the template.   Wamo, no more issues.

 

 

Changed the EBE settings to disable receiving linkbacks received so shouldn't run into it in the future.