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Title: Large memory growth with log scaling and linear ticking · Issue #15251 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

Open Graph Title: Large memory growth with log scaling and linear ticking · Issue #15251 · matplotlib/matplotlib

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Description: I found that I can make my machine spike in memory usage with just this: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_yscale('log') ax.yaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocat...

Open Graph Description: I found that I can make my machine spike in memory usage with just this: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_yscale('log') ...

X Description: I found that I can make my machine spike in memory usage with just this: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_yscale('lo...

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