Also, if you're adventurous, try installing valgrind and running: valgrind --tool=massif python slicer.py
valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes --log-file=slicer_leak python slicer.py and send me the output -- (probably off list because they will be large files). Cheers, Mike Aaron Botnick wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using MPL to plot a 6 panel figure of 2d data using pcolormesh. I > started this script last night, and found it consuming over 3GB of > memory when I got in this morning. After reading through old posts to > this list, I came across this suggestion: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=47558A63.8050307%40cornell.edu&forum_name=matplotlib-users > > <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=47558A63.8050307%40cornell.edu&forum_name=matplotlib-users> > > ...to use gc.collect(), unfortunately this does not solve my > problem...after implementing it, my script is now at nearly 800MB within > 15 minutes of running. I am looping this over several thousand data files. > > I am using MPL - 0.92.2, numpy - 1.0.1, and the Agg backend, and running > in non-interactive mode on a Fedora Linux box with Python 2.4. MPL and > numpy were installed from source rather than the distribution. > > Following the suggestion to track down memory-leaks, the > cbook.print_cycles(gc.garbage) call returns None at every iteration of > the loop. However, using the comparison of original objects ( > gc.get_objects() ) to new objects created after the first loop > iteration, there are a lot of new objects present. > > I've included a copy of the script in an attachment (slicer.py). > > Any help would be great, thanks! > > -- Aaron Botnick > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
