Avoiding Leaks and Double-Frees
Disciplined allocation lifetimes.
Memory You Forget to Free
If you cudaMalloc a buffer and never release it, that GPU memory stays locked away. This waste is called a memory leak. 💧
Leaks Add Up Fast
One forgotten buffer rarely hurts, but a leak inside a loop drains the GPU quickly until new allocations start failing.
All lessons in this course
- cudaMalloc and cudaFree
- Pointers to GPU Memory
- cudaMemset for Initialization
- Avoiding Leaks and Double-Frees