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mod_rest: Expand mapping of XEP-0045 join stanza The previous 'join' mapping was apparently lost in translation when swithing to datamapper, so might as well map some properties allowing history control. Usually you probably want either zero history or history since the last known time of being joined. Maybe that the former should be the default?
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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.