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mod_bookmarks2: Add new module. This is the result of hacking during the Stockholm XMPP Sprint, for compatibility with older clients only doing Private XML XEP-0048. This module shouldn’t be loaded at the same time as mod_bookmarks, as both implement Private XML to achieve their conversion.
author Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>
date Sat, 28 Sep 2019 14:27:13 +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.