Re: [Matplotlib-users] GPF on XP

[Robert L. <ro...@le...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Robert" == Robert Leftwich <ro...@le...> writes:
> 
> 
>     Robert> The good news is that it is a huge improvement, but the
>     Robert> bad news is that I'm still getting a GPF, just a lot less
>     Robert> often :-( Try bumping the minimal test loop up to 5k, it
>     Robert> failed at 3057 for me.
> 
> Bet you had to wait a while for that one. 

Not on the new laptop!

 > Maybe you should use
> the full test script.  At lease you'll fail faster  :-)

Yep, using the real data, it fails pretty quickly.

> 
> 
> What happens if you comment out this line in text.py
> 
>     self.cached[key] = ret
> 
> and this line in backend_agg.py
> 
>   _fontd[key] = font

It's worse, the minimal test fails at 4!, but the real data takes 180 or so.

> 
> We have a linux/unix specific script for testing for memory leaks in
> the mpl src distro unit/memleak_hawaii3.py.  You may want to adapt
> something like this for windows xp so we can get firm numbers on how
> much is leaking per figure.  

I'll attempt this when time permits, possibly late today, but sometime later 
this week is more likely.

Robert