[PySide] QPixmap memory leak

[Baz Walter]

On 14/01/16 21:57, Hannu Tatein wrote:
> Hi Pyside Experts,
>
> I have written a GUI/Image viewer using Pyside. It works perfectly for my
> purpose except that as I browse through the images, the memory consumption
> of computer increases.

 From the Qt docs[1]:

     Note that QPixmaps are automatically added to the QPixmapCache when 
loaded from a file

If you're worried about memory consumption, you can periodically call:

     QPixmapCache.clear()


[1] http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qpixmap.html#load