Re: [Matplotlib-users] Memory leak

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "clovis" == clovis  <cl...@pe...> writes:

    clovis> All, I followed up the 'memory leak' discussion in the
    clovis> sourceforge list and I know the Matplotlib-FAQ entry about
    clovis> this subject. I've also seen John Hunter's post about the
    clovis> need of matching figure/close pairs.  Anyway, I still feel
    clovis> that there are problems in this subject, which can be
    clovis> exposed by the following script (for Windows, but can
    clovis> easily be adapted to Unix).

    clovis> As can be seen by the results (also given below), there is
    clovis> a steady increase in memory usage which is not recovered!

If I recall correctly, there is a known leak in tkagg when you create
multiple canvases, and this is in Tk and not matplotlib proper.  Todd
may have something to add here.  

JDH