On 06/15/2011 01:15 PM, zb wrote:
Hi
You could try the example here:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_qt4.html
Look at the memory grow. It does the same in my program.
I added a call to cbook.report_memory, and shortened the timer to 0.1
seconds in the attached version.
There is no memory leakage evident when I run this on my system.
Eric
Cheers
--- On *Wed, 6/15/11, Eric Firing /<efir...@hawaii.edu>/* wrote:
From: Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] canvas.draw() + pyqt4 memory leak
To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 6:33 PM
On 06/15/2011 12:13 PM, zb wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a loop that updates a graph by calling
>
> self.fig.canvas.draw()
>
> But every time it updates the graph, the memory usage goes up. If the
> program runs for one hour, the memory is gone (things start to
run slow
> too). I've tried to close() objects but the only thing that
brings back
> the ram memory is to close the whole application.
>
> I have read this note in the documentation (but it applies to
pyplot):
>
> "If you are making a long sequence of figures, you need to be
aware of
> one more thing: the memory requiredfor a figure is not completely
> released until the figure is explicitly closed with close(). Deleting
> all references to the figure, and/or using the window manager to kill
> the window in which the figure appears on the screen, is not enough,
> because pyplot maintains internal references until close() is
called."
>
> What could I do in pyqt4 to release the memory?
>
> Thanks
Please provide a simple standalone script that demonstrates the problem.
Eric
#!/usr/bin/env python
# embedding_in_qt4.py --- Simple Qt4 application embedding matplotlib canvases
#
# Copyright (C) 2005 Florent Rougon
# 2006 Darren Dale
#
# This file is an example program for matplotlib. It may be used and
# modified with no restriction; raw copies as well as modified versions
# may be distributed without limitation.
import sys, os, random
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
from numpy import arange, sin, pi
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.cbook import report_memory
progname = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
progversion = "0.1"
class MyMplCanvas(FigureCanvas):
"""Ultimately, this is a QWidget (as well as a FigureCanvasAgg, etc.)."""
def __init__(self, parent=None, width=5, height=4, dpi=100):
fig = Figure(figsize=(width, height), dpi=dpi)
self.axes = fig.add_subplot(111)
# We want the axes cleared every time plot() is called
self.axes.hold(False)
self.compute_initial_figure()
#
FigureCanvas.__init__(self, fig)
self.setParent(parent)
FigureCanvas.setSizePolicy(self,
QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding,
QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding)
FigureCanvas.updateGeometry(self)
def compute_initial_figure(self):
pass
class MyStaticMplCanvas(MyMplCanvas):
"""Simple canvas with a sine plot."""
def compute_initial_figure(self):
t = arange(0.0, 3.0, 0.01)
s = sin(2*pi*t)
self.axes.plot(t, s)
class MyDynamicMplCanvas(MyMplCanvas):
"""A canvas that updates itself every second with a new plot."""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
MyMplCanvas.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
timer = QtCore.QTimer(self)
QtCore.QObject.connect(timer, QtCore.SIGNAL("timeout()"), self.update_figure)
timer.start(100)
def compute_initial_figure(self):
self.axes.plot([0, 1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 0, 4], 'r')
def update_figure(self):
# Build a list of 4 random integers between 0 and 10 (both inclusive)
l = [ random.randint(0, 10) for i in xrange(4) ]
self.axes.plot([0, 1, 2, 3], l, 'r')
self.draw()
print report_memory()
class ApplicationWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
QtGui.QMainWindow.__init__(self)
self.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose)
self.setWindowTitle("application main window")
self.file_menu = QtGui.QMenu('&File', self)
self.file_menu.addAction('&Quit', self.fileQuit,
QtCore.Qt.CTRL + QtCore.Qt.Key_Q)
self.menuBar().addMenu(self.file_menu)
self.help_menu = QtGui.QMenu('&Help', self)
self.menuBar().addSeparator()
self.menuBar().addMenu(self.help_menu)
self.help_menu.addAction('&About', self.about)
self.main_widget = QtGui.QWidget(self)
l = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self.main_widget)
sc = MyStaticMplCanvas(self.main_widget, width=5, height=4, dpi=100)
dc = MyDynamicMplCanvas(self.main_widget, width=5, height=4, dpi=100)
l.addWidget(sc)
l.addWidget(dc)
self.main_widget.setFocus()
self.setCentralWidget(self.main_widget)
self.statusBar().showMessage("All hail matplotlib!", 2000)
def fileQuit(self):
self.close()
def closeEvent(self, ce):
self.fileQuit()
def about(self):
QtGui.QMessageBox.about(self, "About %s" % progname,
u"""%(prog)s version %(version)s
Copyright \N{COPYRIGHT SIGN} 2005 Florent Rougon, 2006 Darren Dale
This program is a simple example of a Qt4 application embedding matplotlib
canvases.
It may be used and modified with no restriction; raw copies as well as
modified versions may be distributed without limitation."""
% {"prog": progname, "version": progversion})
qApp = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
aw = ApplicationWindow()
aw.setWindowTitle("%s" % progname)
aw.show()
sys.exit(qApp.exec_())
#qApp.exec_()
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