How to correctly deallocate or delete a c++ vector?

Question

I have a weird problem with vector in C++..

I created a vector and inserted 10000 integer values into it and have checked the memory utilization. It is 600 kb. But after

Answer 1

Try deleting each element and then deleting the vector itself - see if that makes any difference. Have you tried using valgrind to find out if there are any memory leaks?