Spyder does not realease memory for matplotlib plots
问题 I use Spyder 3.3.6, with Pyhton 3.7.3 over IPyhton 7.7.0 cosole. For different reasons, Spyder has always been my IDE of choice, but now I have decided to drop it altogether and stick to command prompt only. The reason is that I have seen a serious memory leak while using matplotlib which is caused by Spyder. Memory increases linearly until all my 128 GB of memory is consumed to the extend that my Ubuntu machine halted completely and I had to hard reset it. I have had this issue in the past