How to Enable and Detect Memory Leaks in the Unity Editor

Tue, 03 May 2022 06:51:18 +0000

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Introduction

A memory leak occurs when allocated memory is never freed. While it doesn’t necessarily cause immediate crashes, a leak gradually reduces the available memory, degrading system performance over time. In severe cases, it can lead to unpredictable errors or even security vulnerabilities 1.

Memory: “Hmm? Something smells.”

One of the most common causes of memory leaks is forgetting to free dynamically allocated memory — for instance, calling new on the heap and never calling delete. The unpredictable timing of when this causes problems makes debugging quite difficult.

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How to Enable and Detect Memory Leaks in the Unity Editor

Introduction