The problem is in posets, so you get it in all methods that construct the 
face lattice:

http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14356




On Monday, June 16, 2014 3:47:18 PM UTC+1, jplab wrote:
>
> Hey Sage-devel!
>
> I've been experiencing memory issues dealing with Polyhedron objects for a 
> while now... Perhaps it is time to look if something could be done.
>
> Here is a simple code reproducing the (what I believe to be a) memory leak.
>
> First, I use the garbage collector to force the cleaning of memory and 
> then look if the python command grows in memory in a "top".
>
> sage: while True:                                   
>     P=Polyhedron(vertices=[[1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1]])
>     eq=P.equations()
>     del P, eq
>     gc.collect()
> ....:     
> 63
> 31
> 31
> 31
> 31
> ...
>
> It constantly collects garbage, which is to be expected, and on the long 
> run, the python command does not increase in memory usage. While, on the 
> contrary:
>
> sage: while True:
> ....:     P=Polyhedron(vertices=[[1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1]])
> ....:     fv=P.f_vector()
> ....:     del P, fv
> ....:     gc.collect()
> ....:     
> 0
> 0
> 0
> ...
>
> Which not to be expected I guess. Then, when one waits enough, one sees in 
> the "top" that the memory of python increases steadily... This is bad!
>
> I have observed the same behavior with the following functions:
>
> adjacency_matrix
> f_vector
> face_lattice
> facet_adjacency_matrix
> facial_adjacencies
> graph
> is_simple
> vertex_adjacencies (although deprecated, also in the new method to produce 
> the output)
> vertex_adjacency_matrix
> vertex_graph
>
> Someone has an idea?
>

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