numarray memory leak

[Robert Kern]

Peter Dobcsanyi wrote:
> Calling the following function with a large enough 'n' causes memory leak.
> 
>     import numarray as N
> 
>     def loop(n, m=100):
>         for i in xrange(n):
>             a = N.zeros((m,m))
>             N.matrixmultiply(a, a)
> 
> If the matrixmultiply line is commented out, there is no leak, the
> program has a stable memory size.
> 
> I am using numarray 1.1, the result is the same with Python 2.3.4 and
> 2.4b2.

I don't see such behavior on Mac OSX 10.3, Python 2.3, CVS numarray and 
n=10000.

Could you try CVS numarray? What n did you use?

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