Rob Hetland wrote:
> I am using the new transforms version of MPL (the svn trunk), and
> found a memory leak in pcolor and pcolormesh. Be warned, I just
> reported a memory leak in the scikits delaunay package that Robert
> Kern was not able to reproduce, so it might be nice if someone could
> check this out. I am on Mac OS X, 10.4 using the latest svn versions
> of numpy and mpl. Here is the code that shows the leak:
>
I have confirmed this on linux.
Eric
>
> from pylab import figure, close, ioff, savefig
> from numpy.random import rand
>
>
> ioff()
>
> for n in range(1000):
> fig = figure()
> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
> data = rand(1000, 1000)
> ax.pcolormesh(data)
> savefig('foo.png')
> close(fig)
> print n
>
>
>
> I get over a gig in real and virtual memory (over 2 gig total) by
> n=30. I tried both pcolor and pcolormesh, as well as deleting
> various objects, clearing the axis, etc.
>
> -Rob
>
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