title: How to avoid memory leaks in Mule Applications?
body: <p>Are there some special things that must be considered to avoid memory leaks in <a href="https://www.mulesoft.com/de/resources/esb/what-mule-esb" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mule Applications</a>?</p>
  
  <p>How can we avoid memory leaks in Mule Applications?</p>
  
  <p>For example; Do we actually have to remove flow variables? What must be done  done explicitly by the developers of the Mule Applications and what is done (automatically) by the <a href="https://www.mulesoft.com/de/platform/mule" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mule Runtime</a> and the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3798424/what-is-the-garbage-collector-in-java">JVM GC</a>?</p>