Have you tried the pylab.close() this should force the flush of the memory.
2010/2/1 Tanja Gurzhiy <tanja.gurz...@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have already submitted this issue as a possible problem to Tracker,
> however there is no response till now
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2940967&group_id=80706&atid=560720.
> Probably, someone could help me with possible workaround for this
> problem.
>
> I use the pylab.figure in the other application where a user should close
> the figure manually. After the figure is closed, I would expect the memory
> goes back to the level it was before. However, it is not the case, I have
> noticed a memory leak when using pylab.figure(), pylab.show().If I try to
> let show figure via pylan.ion(), then pylab.figure() and pylab.iof(), I also
> see the memory leak.
> Below is simple example:
>
>
>
> pylab.ion()
>
> for i in range(10):
>
> pylab.figure()
>
> pylab.draw()
>
> val = cbook.report_memory(i)
>
> print i, val
>
> pylab.ioff()
>
>
>
> the same loop is used for show():
>
> for i in range(10):
>
> pylab.figure()
>
> pylab.plot([1,3])
>
> val = cbook.report_memory(i)
>
> print i, val
>
> pylab.show()
>
>
> I use the python version 2.5.1, the matplotlib version 0.99.0, OS: SunOs5
> (Solaris), backend: TkAgg.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tanja
>
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