Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: memory leaks, 0.54.1 with .2a modifications

[Steve C. <ste...@ya...>]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:53, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Chaplin <ste...@ya...> writes:
> 
>     Steve> There does seem to be a memory problem when using Python
>     Steve> and GTK+. Have you seen the pygtk FAQ 8.4 "Is there a
>     Steve> resource leak? Why do I run out of memory using Pixbuf?"
> 
> I submitted a patch to fix a pygtk memory leak in get_image that was
> incorporated into pygtk 2.2.
> 
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133681
> 
> Which version are you using?  Do you still see a problem with pygtk
> 2.2 or later?
Thanks for the link. I'm using pygtk from cvs and ran a test for myself
to check that get_image() no longer leaks memory.

I think the FAQ 8.4 reports a memory inefficiency problem, not a memory
leak. It shows a loop where you quickly allocate memory and can use a
large amount of system memory before the Python garbage collector has a
chance to free the unused memory.

Steve