[Numpy-discussion] Memory leak in ndarray

[Robert Crida]

Hi again

I watch the VmSize of the process using eg top or ps

If a is a list then it remains constant. If a is an ndarray as shown in the
example, then the VmSize grows quite rapidly.

Cheers
Robert

On 10/26/07, David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> Robert Crida wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I don't think it is a python issue because if you change the line b =
> > str(a) to just read
> > str(a)
> > then the problem still occurs.
> >
> > Also, if you change a to be a list instead of ndarray then the problem
> > does not occur.
> How do you know there is a memory leak ?
>
> cheers,
>
> David
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