There's a lot of moving parts here. Running your script again is showing some leaks in valgrind that weren't there before, but a number of the underlying libraries have changed on my system since then (memory leaks tend to be Whac-a-mole sometimes...)
Which versions of the following are you running, and on what platform -- some variant of MS-Windows if I recall correctly? Python Numpy wxPython Tkinter Mike On 04/19/2011 10:25 AM, Caleb Constantine wrote: > This picks up from a thread of the same name between 18 Nov 2010 and > 22 Nov 2010. > > Release 1.0.1 of matplotlib has made significant gains in reducing the > memory leak (thanks!!), but it did not > eliminate the problem entirely. Recall, the TkAgg back-end does not > have any leak, so we know this particular > leak is in matplotlib or wxPython. > > Here are the results of some tests. > > Matplotlib 1.0.0 > > - 1 hour > - Plotted 3595 times, about 1Hz > - Memory usage increased by about 18.7MB (59.96 - 41.25), or about > 5.3K per redraw. > > Matplotlib 1.0.1 > > - 1 hour > - Plotted 3601 times, about 1Hz > - Memory usage increased by about 1.4MB (42.98 - 41.59), or about > 0.40K per redraw. > > - 12 hour > - Plotted 43201 times, about 1Hz > - Memory usage increased by about 13.3MB (54.32 - 41.01), or about > 0.32K per redraw. > > As stated before, for a process plotting data for long periods of > time, this becomes an issue. > > Caleb > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload > Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top > priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve > application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting > the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
