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mod_default_bookmarks: Abort on incompatible mod_bookmarks The module formerly known as mod_bookmarks exposed this publish_to_pep function, while the new mod_bookmarks2 (called mod_bookmarks in trunk) does not.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Fri, 07 Jan 2022 23:25:33 +0100
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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.