python plt 内存_创建matplotlib图形后如何释放内存

I have several matlpotlib functions rolled into some django-celery tasks.

Every time the tasks are called more RAM is dedicated to python. Before too long, python is taking up all of the RAM.

QUESTION: How can I release this memory?

UPDATE 2 - A Second Solution:

I asked a similar question specifically about the memory locked up when matplotlib errors, but I got a good answer to this question .clf(), .close(), and gc.collect() aren't needed if you use multiprocess to run the plotting function in a separate process whose memory will automatically be freed once the process ends.

UPDATE - The Solution:

These stackoverflow posts suggested that I can release the memory used by matplotlib objects with the following commands:

import gc

gc.collect()

Here is the example I used to test the solution:

import matplotlib

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