On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > > > On Thursday, November 8, 2012, Carl Michal wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I noticed that a program I had that uses canvas.blit() to do animated >> graphs >> with the gtkagg backend was leaking memory. >> >> I tracked this down to gtk gc's being allocated in agg_to_gtk_drawable >> with >> gdk_gc_new(), but never being destroyed. >> >> The leak can be seen using the 'Animating selected plot elements' example >> from: >> >> http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations >> >> (if it is modified to run forever, rather than just 50 plots and also >> changing numerix to numpy). After a few minutes, it is clear from ps that >> the >> memory usage is slowly but steadily climbing. >> >> Patch below (against matplotlib-1.1.1.) fixes it. >> >> Carl >> >> --- _gtkagg.cpp~ 2012-06-30 12:37:00.000000000 -0700 >> +++ _gtkagg.cpp 2012-11-08 14:30:23.000000000 -0800 >> @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ >> destbuffer, >> deststride); >> >> + gdk_gc_destroy(gc); >> if (needfree) >> { >> delete [] destbuffer; >> >> >> > > If you are willing, would you like to file a PR against the v1.2.x branch? > > Ben Root
Decided to follow-up on this and it looks like this patch has already been applied. -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences 201 E. 24th St. Stop C0200 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1229 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
