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mod_log_events_by_memory: Add a rant to README about uselessness of this module
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:24:54 +0200
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1 This module compares the memory usage reported by Lua before and after
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2 each event and reports it to the log if it exceeds the configuration
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3 setting `log_memory_threshold` (in bytes).
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5 ``` lua
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6 log_memory_threshold = 20*1024
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7 ```
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9 Prosody runs on Lua which uses automatic memory management with garbage
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10 collection, so the numbers reported by this module are very likely to be
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11 useless for the purpose of identifying memory leaks. Large, but
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12 temporary, increases in memory usage can however highlight other kinds
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13 of performance problems and sometimes even provide hits for where to
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14 look for memory leaks.