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mod_watch_spam_reports: Support spam_reporting/abuse-report Now it also notifies for spam_reporting/abuse-report, before it only did for spam_reporting/spam-report
author Martin Dosch <martin@mdosch.de>
date Thu, 01 Jul 2021 21:00:03 +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 If you are looking to identify memory leaks, please first read [Three
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10 kinds of memory
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11 leaks](https://blog.nelhage.com/post/three-kinds-of-leaks/).
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13 Prosody runs on Lua which uses automatic memory management with garbage
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14 collection, so the numbers reported by this module are very likely to be
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15 useless for the purpose of identifying memory leaks. Large, but
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16 temporary, increases in memory usage can however highlight other kinds
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17 of performance problems and sometimes even provide hits for where to
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18 look for memory leaks.