Hi Russel, A Dimecres 25 Gener 2006 18:24, Russel Howe va escriure: > I am not sure if this is a numarray problem or a pytables > problem, but this is the simplest program I have been able to create > that illustrates the problem. The attached program causes my machine > to use all available memory (1G ram + 1G swap), it is eventually > killed by the kernel. Is there some other call I should make to > pytables to free the memory used by a file? My application actually > processes many large files in sequence, and after just a few the > machine runs out of memory. > The problem does not seem to happen for a program that creates a > large number of files, the files I am working on here are actually > converted from a different format, the conversion program runs fine.
Well, I think this should be a leak in PyTables (the VLArray objects has not been checked very toughfully for leaks). I'll look into this as soon as I get some time. Thanks for reporting this! -- >0,0< Francesc Altet http://www.carabos.com/ V V Cárabos Coop. V. Enjoy Data "-" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
