Jeff, Solved, I think! 2009/3/3 Jose Gomez-Dans <jgomezd...@gmail.com>: > OK, I wasn't aware of this. However, memory consumption still flies. I am > aware that it could be other bits of the program that are eating up loads of > memory, but I don't know how to test where the bottleneck is. In the end, I > resorted to getting rid of basemap instances, but the problem persists. > There must be something in what I'm doing that's eating memory up, but I'm > not sure how to check what it is.
A message to the list suggested that calling pyplot.close( fig_num) freed up the memory used, which I'm happy to report, is happening. I still haven't managed to "cut and paste" a background into my figures, but we'll get there... eventually!!! Thanks! Jose ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
