view mod_log_events_by_memory/README.markdown @ 5050:48c27b51f992

mod_spam_reporting: Remove redundant rockspec dependency on mod_blocklist mod_blocklist is included in the same version that has the plugin installer
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:10:03 +0200
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.