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mod_log_events_by_memory: Add a rant to README about uselessness of this module
author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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date | Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:24:54 +0200 |
parents | 5fe34e5f9829 |
children | f781a90018f4 |
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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 ``` 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.