[SciPy-User] fftpack problem

[Ranjit Chacko]

Hi,

I have a loop in my program which repeatedly calls ifft2 and fft2 in order
to do a convolution. After many iterations the program crashed because of a
memory error. Is there a memory leak in these functions?

Python(8811) malloc: *** mmap(size=4194304) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/rjchacko/Python/pythonsims/src/gagne.py", line 92, in
<module>
    nonLocalTerm = ifft2(fft2(phi) * Ktilde)
  File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.1.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/fftpack/basic.py",
line 415, in ifft2
    return ifftn(x,shape,axes,overwrite_x)
  File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.1.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/fftpack/basic.py",
line 393, in ifftn
    return _raw_fftnd(tmp,shape,axes,-1,overwrite_x,work_function)
  File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.1.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/fftpack/basic.py",
line 312, in _raw_fftnd
    x = _fix_shape(x, s[i], waxes[i])
  File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.1.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/fftpack/basic.py",
line 38, in _fix_shape
    z = zeros(s,x.dtype.char)
MemoryError
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