[petsc-users] KSP and VecDestroy

[Shiyuan]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 19:48, Shiyuan <gshy2014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    I want to track down an memory problem and have something I don't
>> understand.
>> In the following part, I create four vectors and destroy them. If I don't
>> call KSPSolve, log tells me four Vec are created and four Vec are destroyed
>> which I expect. But if I call KSPSolve, log tells me four Vec are created
>> but only two are destroyed in that Stage? Does KSP refer the two vectors
>> somewhere inside which make VecDestroy cannot destroy them?
>
>
> Yes
>
>
>> Does it create memory leak becase of that?
>
>
> No, they are destroyed when you call KSPDestroy().
>
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>     ierr=PetscLogStagePush(memoryWatch);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>     MatGetVecs(*(pCSolverNeu->pK),&x0,&rhs);
>> VecDuplicate(x0,&(workVec[0]));VecDuplicate(x0,&(workVec[1]));
>>     VecSetRandom(x0,randomctx);
>>     VecCopy(x0,workVec[0]);
>>     MatMult(*(pMGDataVec[0]->pA),x0,rhs);
>>
>>     ierr=KSPSolve(ksp,rhs, workVec[0]);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>
>>     ierr=VecDestroy(&x0);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>     ierr=VecDestroy(&rhs);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>     ierr=VecDestroy(&workVec[0]);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>     ierr=VecDestroy(&workVec[1]);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>     ierr=PetscLogStagePop();CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>
>
> But in the -log_summary, these two Vecs seems not be counted as destroyed,
which makes the number of created Vec is two more than the number of
destroyed Vec. This makes me think that I forget to free memory. Is it
supposed to work that way? Is the memory part  in the log meant to be a way
to detect the memory leak problem? Thanks.
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