# HG changeset patch # User Kim Alvefur # Date 1560378312 -7200 # Node ID f781a90018f446c1ac7db9bc14069577be115755 # Parent 61b9c89db212ca5398e24f823767e9d59df10cea mod_log_events_by_memory: Add link to post explaining different kinds of memory leaks diff -r 61b9c89db212 -r f781a90018f4 mod_log_events_by_memory/README.markdown --- a/mod_log_events_by_memory/README.markdown Thu Jun 13 00:24:54 2019 +0200 +++ b/mod_log_events_by_memory/README.markdown Thu Jun 13 00:25:12 2019 +0200 @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ 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