test_memory

This test case program checks MESA’s memory management. It is designed primarily to be run inside the valgrind leak-checking tool, and is based on code provided originally by Warrick Ball.

The program test_memory builds a pre-main sequence model, and then deletes it, twice in succession - see src/test_memory.f90. For speed reasons, the ./rn script does NOT use valgrind. Rather, valgrind must be launched by hand:

valgrind --leak-check=full --error-limit=no  ./test_memory

To hide a number of false positives, due to internal gfortran issues, one can also use the supplied supression file mesa.supp:

valgrind --leak-check=full --error-limit=no --suppressions=mesa.supp ./test_memory

Other usefull valgrind options:

--show-leak-kinds=all --track-origins=yes  : To add additonal output
--log-file=valgrind.out : Redirect valgrind's output to the file ``valgrind.out''
--gen-suppressions=all : Generates supression rules as valgrind runs, helpful when you want to edit mesa.supp

Last-Updated: 03Jul2021 (MESA 094ff71) by fxt.