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mod_smacks: also count outgoing MAM messages mod_smacks doesn't count outgoing MAM messages, which causes warnings in Prosody such as: > The client says it handled 41 new stanzas, but we only sent 2 It seems mod_smacks is in the wrong here and that it's too strict in trying to determine what is a valid stanza to count. In RFC6120: > Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning > in XMPP. A stanza is a first-level element (at depth=1 of the stream) > whose element name is "message", "presence", or "iq" and whose > qualifying namespace is 'jabber:client' or 'jabber:server'.
author JC Brand <jc@opkode.com>
date Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:57:02 +0100
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This module compares the memory usage reported by Lua before and after
each event and reports it to the log if it exceeds the configuration
setting `log_memory_threshold` (in bytes).

``` lua
log_memory_threshold = 20*1024
```

If you are looking to identify memory leaks, please first read [Three
kinds of memory
leaks](https://blog.nelhage.com/post/three-kinds-of-leaks/).

Prosody runs on Lua which uses automatic memory management with garbage
collection, so the numbers reported by this module are very likely to be
useless for the purpose of identifying memory leaks. Large, but
temporary, increases in memory usage can however highlight other kinds
of performance problems and sometimes even provide hits for where to
look for memory leaks.