Notes on Fixing Memory Leaks

This page lists some of the common sources of memory leaks and how to fix them – this is a work in progress.

• Check that you’ve deleted the pointer to a cell killer at the end of a test, if you’ve created one.

• You may need to delete the tissue created by a serializer.

• Check that SimulationTime has been properly initialised – you may need to call SetEndTimeAndNumberOfTimeSteps

• Archiving – if you’re serialising a vector, check that you have put data in it.

• PETSc memory leak: you may need to free memory by calling VecDestroy.