[Matplotlib-users] Memory trouble with imshow

2008-02-19 Thread Leif Oppermann
Dear all, I ran into a memory problem when trying to draw a few hundred png files using one imshow per file. The problem can be boiled down to the attached code which eats my memory very quickly until Python bombs out. I tried to del objects after their use, looked for garbage and read the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Memory trouble with imshow

2008-02-19 Thread John Hunter
On Feb 19, 2008 8:37 AM, Leif Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from pylab import * import gc for i in range (1000): A=rand(1024,1024) im = imshow(A) #del A #doesn't help #del im #doesn't help #print gc.garbage # no garbage matplotlib overplots by default -- try setting