Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow memory leak in pylab mode?

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:06 PM, K.-Michael Aye <kmi...@gm...> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm not sure if this is by design or a problem:
>
> In a pylab session, if I repeatedly call imshow with the same image,
> memory increases each time.
> This does not happen if i go the 'Artists' way (fig = .., ax =
> fig.add---, im = ax.imshow)
> Is there a way to avoid memory consumption like this in the pylab style?
> Even a clf() does not release the memory.
> My config is the latest Enthought distribution in 32-bit mode for MacOS.
>


Can you post a complete free-standing script that we can run which
exposes the problem?  Also please report your version numbers -- we
could look them up from enthought perhaps but you can help us :-)

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/troubleshooting_faq.html#troubleshooting