Thank you for your help. I upgraded to the latest development version,
and as you said, memory use dropped a ton. I will have to test more to
confirm that the problem is completely gone, but this appears to bring
memory usage down to something quite manageable (at least on my 8gb box
...).
T
Tom,
I just went through this, though with version 1.01 of mpl, so it may be
different. You can read the
very long thread at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20031.html
Those who maintain mpl don't think there is a memory leak. What I found was
that imsh
I am using matplotlib pylab in association with ipython -pylab to show
many large (~2000x2000 or larger) images. Each time I show another
image it consumes more memory until eventually exhausting all system
memory and making my whole system unresponsive.
The easiest way to replicate this behav
