[Matplotlib-users] Garbage collection?

[Sarah M. <mou...@gm...>]

Hi all,

is there some way to clean up all the memory used by matplotlib? I
currently have a script which creates a bunch of plots and it seems to
use an increasing amount of memory until my m/c runs out of memory and
swap space. I'm forcing the gc to collect after every plot is
generated (and saved to disc) and that doesn't help. Looking through
the list of types that the gc is holding it seems like the vast
majority of them are objects generated by matplotlib. I'm pretty sure
now that it's not an issue with the data structures I'm creating, so
... any ideas?

If it helps, I'm using matplotlib 0.87 on Fedora Core 4 with numpy
0.9.5. I've run the memory test code in
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#LEAKS and got the
following:

Average memory consumed per loop: -0.1083k bytes

Many thanks!

Sarah

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