On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:58:15PM +0100, Oriol Vendrell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've noticed something that looks like an odd behaviour in array.argsort().
> 
> 
> # test1 ---------------------
> from numpy import array
> while True:
>     a=array([8.0,7.0,6.0,5.0,4.0,2.0])
>     i=a.argsort()
> # ---------------------------
> 
> # test2 ---------------------
> from numpy import array
> a=array([8.0,7.0,6.0,5.0,4.0,2.0])
> while True:
>     i=a.argsort()
> # ---------------------------
> 
> 
> test1 runs out of memory after a few minutes, it seems that in each cycle
> some memory is allocated and never returned back.
> test2 runs fine until killed.
> 
> I'm unsure if I'm missing something or if this could be a bug. I'm using
> numpy 1.0.1 with python 2.4.4 in a debian stable system.

Certainly a bug, but it has been fixed and I cannot reproduce in debian
sid (using 1.0.4-5) 

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