Re: [Matplotlib-users] Memory leak when using pyplot.ion() ?

[Mark L. <bre...@ya...>]

On 14/10/2013 13:51, OCuanachain, Oisin (Oisin) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with a script. It runs a number of iterations and
> plots and saves a number of plots on each iteration. After the plots
> have been saved I issue the pyplot.close(‘all’) command so despite many
> plots being created only 4 should be open at any given time which should
> not cause any memory problems. When I run the script however I see the
> RAM usage gradually growing without bound and eventually causing the
> script to crash. Interestingly I have found if I comment out the
> pyplot.ion()  and pyplot.ioff() the problem vanishes. So I do have a
> workaround but it would still be good to have this fixed in case I
> forget about it in future and loose another weekend’s work.
>
> My OS is Windows XP Service Pack 3
> Python 2.6
> Matplotlib 1.0.1
>

Is this actually a matplotlib problem or could it be a Windows problem 
as discussed here http://bugs.python.org/issue19246 ?

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