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mod_bookmarks2: Use same default as mod_pep for max_items Should fix the issue with max items until the proper "max" can be used, by following the configured max. While "max" is already in trunk, it's not easily usable in 0.11.x This limit and option was added to mod_pep in Prosody rev aefb96a52f5f
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:39:37 +0200
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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.