[IPython-dev] memory leak?

[Fernando Perez]

Fernando Perez wrote:
> Ville Vainio wrote:
> 
>>On 4/8/06, Hans Meine <hans_meine at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Sth. like the following would be great:
>>>
>>>%clearout - clear whole cache
>>>%clearout 112 - clear one line
>>>%clearout :100 140:150 113 - clear multiple (sub)ranges
>>
>>
>>I'll take a look at this over the next week, I have winter holiday so
>>I should have plenty of time & energy to play with stuff like this.
> 
> 
> Yes, something like this would be nice to have.  Note that the cache object 
> already has some basic flushing capabilities:
> 
> __IP.outputcache.flush??
> 
> which would be good to reuse/extend/cleanup.
> 
> In the meantime, the OP can use at least
> 
> __IP.outputcache.flush()
> 
> for a full flush of the output cache (if not a line-targetted one).

I should have added that a

gc.collect()

would probably be a good idea to have at the end of that flush() method.  I 
also noticed that the Out[] object isn't really correctly flushed, only the 
_NN variables are deleted (that code was probably written before Out[] existed 
as a proper cache).  Just some pointers...

Cheers,

f