[Numpy-discussion] Memory leak when looking .flags

[Cyrille Rosset]

Hi,

I'm not sure this is the right mailing list for this, but it seems 
there's a memory leak when looking at flags :

 >>> from numpy import *
 >>> x=ones(50000000)       #==> python use 25% of memory (ok)
 >>> del x
#==> memory usage fall back to almost zero (as seen in top)
Thqt's good.

but if I look at flags before the del :
 >>> x=ones(50000000)
 >>> x.flags
   C_CONTIGUOUS : True
   F_CONTIGUOUS : True
   OWNDATA : True
   WRITEABLE : True
   ALIGNED : True
   UPDATEIFCOPY : False
 >>> del x
 >>> who()

Upper bound on total bytes  =       0

That looks nice, but the memory usage by python (in top) is still 25%... 
  Isn't it a bug ?

Cheers
Cyrille Rosset.