From c7e8356e5239100fc15d589a919bec34130e6e42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Vladim=C3=ADr=20Vondru=C5=A1?= <mosra@centrum.cz>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 12:31:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] m.plots: matplotlib otherwise keeps everything in memory.

Huh.
---
 pelican-plugins/m/plots.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pelican-plugins/m/plots.py b/pelican-plugins/m/plots.py
index 173ca76d..1d09cf97 100644
--- a/pelican-plugins/m/plots.py
+++ b/pelican-plugins/m/plots.py
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ class Plot(rst.Directive):
         fig.patch.set_visible(False) # hide the white background
         imgdata = io.StringIO()
         fig.savefig(imgdata, format='svg')
+        plt.close() # otherwise it consumes a lot of memory in autoreload mode
 
         # Patch the rendered output: remove preable and hardcoded size
         imgdata = _patch_src.sub(_patch_dst, imgdata.getvalue())
-- 
2.30.2