view mod_log_events_by_memory/README.markdown @ 4737:2bc5a0c0d8c3

mod_rest: Remove unused variable [luacheck] Copied from core.stanza_router where it was probably used later in some code not included in the copy.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Wed, 03 Nov 2021 20:15:14 +0100
parents f781a90018f4
children
line wrap: on
line source

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.