Re: [Matplotlib-users] Looking for memory tips for interactive use

[Fernando P. <Fer...@co...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Fernando" == Fernando Perez <Fer...@co...> writes:
> 
>     Fernando> Oh, I don't think it's necessarily a leak.  Simply a ton
>     Fernando> of unreachable stuff lying around, which a call to
>     Fernando> gc.collect() may help with.
> 
> I hope you're right -- matplotlib uses a lot of cyclic references.
> But if he's using the pylab interface to manage the figure windows,
> the destroy event of the window manager already triggers a call to
> gc.collect in the _pylab_helpers module.

Never mind then.  If gc.collect is already called reasonably often, an extra 
manual call will do zilch.  Sorry.

Best,

f