On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Austin Bingham <[email protected]>wrote:

> OK, if numpy is just subject to Python's behavior then what I'm seeing
> must be due to the vagaries of Python. I've noticed that things like
> removing a particular line of code or reordering seemingly unrelated calls
> (unrelated to the memory issue, that is) can affect when memory is reported
> as free. I'll just assume that everything is in order and carry on. Thanks!
>
>
If you are running interactively in IPython, references will be kept to
return values. That can eventually eat up memory if you are working with a
lot of big arrays.

<snip>

Chuck
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