Re: [matplotlib-devel] big memory leak when running tests?

2014-05-05 Thread Thomas Caswell
This is probably related to some of the random 'out of memory' errors we have been getting on travis. Maybe we should add `gc.collect` to the clean up method? On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Jens Nielsen wrote: > I can confirm that after running the test suite with matplotlib.test() on a > OSX 1

[matplotlib-devel] Mep23 multi figure manager

2014-05-05 Thread Federico Ariza
Hello everybody. I just created a new MEP https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Mep23for the modification of the FugureManager adding the possibility to have several canvases under the same window. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Thank you. Federico --

Re: [matplotlib-devel] big memory leak when running tests?

2014-05-05 Thread Jens Nielsen
I can confirm that after running the test suite with matplotlib.test() on a OSX 10.9 machine I end up with using around 1.5 Gb of memory. Furthermore the Python console that the tests are running from is extremely slow after the tests. Doing a gc.collect() frees most of the memory and returns the c