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zhafen / linefinder

A tool for finding and classifying the worldlines of Lagrangian parcels of mass, in the context of hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation.
https://zhafen.github.io/linefinder
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Memory leak in ParticleTracker.save_particle_tracks() #16

Closed zhafen closed 6 years ago

zhafen commented 7 years ago

Originally reported by Zachary Hafen (Bitbucket: zhafen, GitHub: zhafen)

As seen below, there appears to be a memory leak in ParticleTracker.save_particle_tracks(). parallel_tracking_memory_usage.png

zhafen commented 6 years ago

Original comment by Zachary Hafen (Bitbucket: zhafen, GitHub: zhafen)

This issue still exists. However, the ideal way to parallelize now is to use jug, i.e. save_particle_tracks_jug(), which doesn't have this issue.