feat: log heap watermark, largest free block and subsystem breakdown

[jp-bennett]

The periodic heap line (Power::logHeapUsage, every 5 minutes) reported only free/total, which cannot distinguish a leak from fragmentation, and the MemAudit per-subsystem breakdown was only ever printed once, at boot (src/main.cpp).

This adds two MemGet wrappers and puts both, plus the breakdown, on the existing 5-minute tick:

• MemGet::getMinFreeHeap() → ESP.getMinFreeHeap(), the lowest free heap since boot
• MemGet::getMaxAllocHeap() → ESP.getMaxAllocHeap(), the largest block malloc() could still return

Both return 0 on platforms that cannot report them (nRF52, RP2040, STM32WL, native), and the log line omits that part when neither is available, so behaviour there is unchanged.

Reading a field log then goes:

• watermark falling over time → real leak
• watermark steady, largest block shrinking → fragmentation
• MemAudit[periodic] line → which tagged subsystem (nodedb, pkthist, tmm, warm, msgstore, display, …) accounts for the movement

Cost is one extra MemAudit line per 5 minutes and two heap_caps queries; no new allocations (the detail string is a stack buffer, matching the surrounding monitoring code).

Sample ESP32 output:

INFO | Heap: 118432/294912 bytes free (-2144 since last), min 96204, largest block 65524
INFO | MemAudit[periodic]: nodedb=13440 pkthist=5824 tmm=2500 warm=4000 total=25764

🤝 Attestations

• I have tested that my proposed changes behave as described.
  • Not run on hardware. This session has no PlatformIO toolchain access (the native platform archive is blocked by the environment's egress policy), so the change is unbuilt here and relies on CI. The ESP32 paths use only ESP.getMinFreeHeap() / ESP.getMaxAllocHeap(), both long-standing arduino-esp32 EspClass members. Please test on hardware before merging.
• I have tested that my proposed changes do not cause any obvious regressions on the following devices:
  • Heltec (Lora32) V3
  • LilyGo T-Deck
  • LilyGo T-Beam
  • RAK WisBlock 4631
  • Seeed Studio T-1000E tracker card
  • Other: originally motivated by heap growth on Heltec Wireless Tracker V2 (ESP32-S3)

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  • Added periodic memory diagnostics showing minimum free heap and largest available allocation block on supported devices.
  • Added memory audit breakdown logging during periodic diagnostics.
  • Added cross-platform memory monitoring APIs, with unsupported platforms returning zero.

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The change adds platform-aware heap metric access to MemGet and clarifies the heap diagnostic comments in Power.cpp.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Heap metric access and diagnostic semantics src/memGet.h, src/memGet.cpp, src/Power.cpp	MemGet exposes minimum-free-heap and maximum-allocatable-heap methods. ESP32 builds return the corresponding ESP values, while other platforms return 0. Power.cpp comments describe the metric semantics.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 094c1

The periodic diagnostics now include a lifetime minimum-free-heap value that could be mistaken for proof of an ongoing leak without careful interpretation. This is a bounded observability risk for maintainers, so merge is reasonable with explicit owner awareness.

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82-85: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Shorten the added API comments.

Each Doxygen block uses four lines for a simple accessor. Keep the metric meaning and unsupported-platform fallback in one or two lines.

Proposed simplification

-/**
- * Returns the lowest the free heap has ever been since boot.
- * `@return` uint32_t Low watermark in bytes, or 0 if the platform can't report it.
- */
+/// Lowest free heap watermark since boot; 0 if unsupported.

-/**
- * Returns the largest contiguous block malloc() could still return.
- * `@return` uint32_t Block size in bytes, or 0 if the platform can't report it.
- */
+/// Largest allocatable block; 0 if unsupported.

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In `@src/memGet.cpp` around lines 82 - 85, Shorten the Doxygen comments for the
low-watermark accessor and the related API around the second referenced block to
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Inline comments:
In `@src/Power.cpp`:
- Around line 1240-1241: Update the diagnostic comment near getMinFreeHeap() to
avoid treating a falling minimum-free-heap watermark as proof of a leak;
identify the periodic heapFree trend as the leak indicator, while retaining the
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In `@src/memGet.cpp`:
- Around line 82-85: Shorten the Doxygen comments for the low-watermark accessor
and the related API around the second referenced block to one or two lines,
preserving the metric meaning and the zero-value fallback when unsupported. Do
not alter the accessor implementations or behavior.

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