# HG changeset patch # User Kim Alvefur # Date 1560378294 -7200 # Node ID 61b9c89db212ca5398e24f823767e9d59df10cea # Parent c0bc97c0ba616a0b84d61efcecdaec29a214d4e3 mod_log_events_by_memory: Add a rant to README about uselessness of this module diff -r c0bc97c0ba61 -r 61b9c89db212 mod_log_events_by_memory/README.markdown --- a/mod_log_events_by_memory/README.markdown Mon Jun 10 15:23:52 2019 +0200 +++ b/mod_log_events_by_memory/README.markdown Thu Jun 13 00:24:54 2019 +0200 @@ -6,3 +6,9 @@ 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.