big memory leak when running tests?

When I try to run matplotlib/tests.py on master, linux, python 2.7, in a virtual machine with 4GB, the memory use grows out of control. Just running the test_axes chews up 1.5 G. Has anyone else seen this?

Eric

I can confirm that after running the test suite with matplotlib.test() on a OSX 10.9 machine I end up with using around 1.5 Gb of memory. Furthermore the Python console that the tests are running from is extremely slow after the tests. Doing a gc.collect() frees most of the memory and returns the console to normal. I have only tested this with the stable 1.3.1 release

/Jens

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On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Eric Firing <efiring@…272…229…> wrote:

When I try to run matplotlib/tests.py on master, linux, python 2.7, in a

virtual machine with 4GB, the memory use grows out of control. Just

running the test_axes chews up 1.5 G. Has anyone else seen this?

Eric


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This is probably related to some of the random 'out of memory' errors
we have been getting on travis.

Maybe we should add `gc.collect` to the clean up method?

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On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Jens Nielsen <jenshnielsen@...149...> wrote:

I can confirm that after running the test suite with matplotlib.test() on a
OSX 10.9 machine I end up with using around 1.5 Gb of memory. Furthermore
the Python console that the tests are running from is extremely slow after
the tests. Doing a gc.collect() frees most of the memory and returns the
console to normal. I have only tested this with the stable 1.3.1 release

/Jens

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Eric Firing <efiring@...229...> wrote:

When I try to run matplotlib/tests.py on master, linux, python 2.7, in a
virtual machine with 4GB, the memory use grows out of control. Just
running the test_axes chews up 1.5 G. Has anyone else seen this?

Eric

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