So, I just tried comparing memory usage for a plot displayed via show()
versus savefig() as a PNG. It would seem that saving to pngs uses more
memory. Not sure why, though.
Ben
On Jun 4, 2014 12:57 PM, "Eric Firing" <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 2014/06/04 6:26 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>> A theory...
>>
>> If I remember correctly, the nosttests was set up to execute in parallel
>> using the default Multiprocessing settings, which is to have a process
>> worker for each available CPU core. Perhaps this might be the crux of
>> the issue with so many simultaneous tests running that the amount of
>> memory used at the same time becomes too large. Or, am I thinking of the
>> doc build system?
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
>
> Ben,
>
> Top shows a single process. The VM is configured with 2 cores.
>
> Eric
>
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