Re: [Matplotlib-users] a possible bug report

[Francesco M. <fra...@gm...>]

Hi Michael,

I don't have an answer about your bug. But the official place to report
possible bugs is github.
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues?state=open

Cheers,
Fra



2014-06-12 18:07 GMT+02:00 M.Rule <mru...@gm...>:

> Hi all,
>
> I haven't been able to find a more official place to report potential
> Matplotlib bugs, so I'm going to describe the issue I'm seeing here. Sorry
> if this is the wrong forum.
>
> On my system, it takes matplotlib a very very long time to close plots.
> Sometimes, up to 20 minutes to close a simple figure. Creating new figures
> remains fast. The problem seems to occur only when I've loaded a large
> amount of data in to python ( on the order of 1GB ). I am using the current
> version of Ubuntu and running "ipython --pylab". To reproduce on my system,
> it is sufficient to load a large amount of data, create a plot.. any plot,
> and then try to close it using the little "x" at the top right corner of
> the window. The whole session will freeze for an extended period of time.
> The plot does not have to be complex: a hundred datapoints, a thousand, it
> makes no difference. Since the problem only occurs when a large amount of
> data has been loaded, my guess is that there is a problem with how
> Matplotlib/Pylab/Python is trying to free the memory associated with the
> figure?
>
> So... I just though I'd put this out there in case anyone else sees the
> same issue, or in case a developer who knows why this might be happening
> reads this. The workaround for me is... to simply wait for the figures to
> close, however long that may take, or restart the whole session.
>
> Best,
> michael.
>
>
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