Yes, as of r5747 twinx (well, shared axes specifically) no longer leaks. Manuel has discovered a seemingly generic leak that occurs when pyplot.close() is called and running a GUI backend. I can confirm his results with the script he last sent.
Cheers, Mike Manuel Metz wrote: > John Hunter wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> I can confirm this. >>> >>> Commenting out "del Gcf.figs[num]" in Gcf.destroy (in >>> _pylab_helpers.py) >>> also seems to resolve the leak. But I have no idea why, so I won't >>> commit it just yet. I don't have much time to look deeper now. Does >>> anyone (who probably understands figure management better than me) have >>> an idea what might cause this? >> >> Can you post the script you are using to test -- I am a little >> confused from reading this thread by whether or not twinx is >> implicated. Also, I saw that you committed some changes vis-a-vis the >> twinx leak >> >> r5747 | mdboom | 2008-07-11 13:21:53 -0500 (Fri, 11 Jul 2008) | 2 >> lines >> >> Fix memory leak when using shared axes. >> >> so I thought that part was resolved already... >> >> JDH > > I use a modified version of the script Laurent Oget posted (see > attachment). Here is the output if I don't comment out PL.close(1). > > ~/python/test$ python looptest.py -dGTK > 0 GC 69354 69354 0 13854 > 100 GC 84354 150 0 15163 > 200 GC 99354 150 0 16306 > 300 GC 114354 150 0 17364 > 400 GC 129354 150 0 18576 > ~/python/test$ python looptest.py -dTK > 0 GC 69521 69521 0 14065 > 100 GC 84521 150 0 15444 > 200 GC 99521 150 0 16581 > 300 GC 114521 150 0 17719 > 400 GC 129521 150 0 18715 > ~/python/test$ python looptest.py -dPS > 0 GC 59307 59307 0 7705 > 100 GC 59307 0 0 8037 > 200 GC 59307 0 0 8038 > 300 GC 59307 0 0 8038 > 400 GC 59307 0 0 8038 > > (so for the window-less backend PS no objects are left) > > And now I commented out the line PL.close(1): > > ~/python/test$ python looptest.py -dGTK > 0 GC 69379 69379 0 13855 > 100 GC 69379 0 0 14253 > 200 GC 69379 0 0 14253 > 300 GC 69379 0 0 14253 > 400 GC 69379 0 0 14252 > > Manuel -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
