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mod_http_oauth2/README: Expand summary to include OAuth 2.0 role
This module implements the Authorization Server parts of OAuth 2.0, so
having the summary say that seems sensible.
| author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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| date | Wed, 07 Jun 2023 01:43:35 +0200 |
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1 This module compares the memory usage reported by Lua before and after |
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2 each event and reports it to the log if it exceeds the configuration |
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3 setting `log_memory_threshold` (in bytes). |
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5 ``` lua |
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6 log_memory_threshold = 20*1024 |
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7 ``` |
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9 If you are looking to identify memory leaks, please first read [Three |
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10 kinds of memory |
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11 leaks](https://blog.nelhage.com/post/three-kinds-of-leaks/). |
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13 Prosody runs on Lua which uses automatic memory management with garbage |
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14 collection, so the numbers reported by this module are very likely to be |
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15 useless for the purpose of identifying memory leaks. Large, but |
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16 temporary, increases in memory usage can however highlight other kinds |
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17 of performance problems and sometimes even provide hits for where to |
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18 look for memory leaks. |
