VecDestroy and memory leak

[Jed Brown]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:18:04 +0100, nicolas aunai <nicolas.aunai at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've looked at the function VecDestroy() definition, it seems to check
> a PetscObject member called 'refct' before actually free the memory,
> I've printed this 'refct' for my natural vector and its value is '2',
> while it is '1' for a vector correctly freed.

The DA holds a reference to this vector so it can give it away the next
time you call DACreateNaturalVector().  It's not a leak because the DA
will destroy it's reference in DADestroy().  You can run with
-malloc_dump to confirm that all PETSc objects have been destroyed.

Jed
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