[matplotlib-devel] Possible Bug

[Joe <gar...@us...>]

Hello devels,

I chose to use matplotlib for a restaurant simulation.  It supplied all the 
features I needed and I was pleasantly surprised.  However the people I was 
doing this project for mentioned that the simulation slowed down to a crawl 
10 or so minutes into the simulation.  It sounded like a memory leak to me so 
I investigated and found a 100 KB/sec leak in Windows (via the interpreter as 
well as frozen with py2exe) as well as in Linux.  I narrowed it down to a 
part of the code where I updated xlim and ylim via Axes::set_xlim, 
Axes::set_ylim.  Commenting that part out yielded no leak, however I lost 
some critical functionality in my charts (which behave like the Windows Task 
Manager resource monitor graphs).  So I really need this fixed.  I will send 
shortly a test case which replicates the problem.  

Since the maintainer is out on vacation, I was also wondering if anyone knew 
enough about the internals of matplotlib that they could give me an idea of 
which modules (Python or otherwise) are affected by Axes::set_xlim and 
Axes::set_ylim.

Joe