General memory leaks in application?

I'm new to MatLab although having programmed a fair amount of C, C++, C~, Pacsal etc.

I have an application (which I've taken over) that has a memory leak. In general what can I look for. In C there was new/delete and open/close etc. What are the equivalent in MatLab. Some things are not releasing resources - there is some cleanup in the application but obviously something is missing. Can someone point me in the right direction.

Thanks

Chris

[Jan]

Please explain any details. How do you determine that you have a memory leak, or at least assume that you have one? What are "some things"? Could you post a minimal example which reproduces the described behavior?

In other words: currently it is not even possible to guess, what you are exactly talking about.

Answer 1

[Chris Wilson]

I've justfound that the processes are still running from earlier invocations of the application even though it is not visible. This appears to be what is taking the memory.

Any ideas?

Chris

[Jan]

Matlab is single threaded. So what are "the processes", which are still running? What is the questions?