convertToPDF() has memory leak (original) (raw)

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for img in os.listdir("C:\pil"):
imgdoc=fitz.open(os.path.join("C:\pil",img))
imgdoc.convertToPDF()
imgdoc.close()

I executed the above line of code my RAM bumped up to 2gb to 3 gb and did not come down at all

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Memory leak in convertToPDF()

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execute the following lines of code with images in any folder:

I executed with 420 images -> 1 GB ram occupied

for img in os.listdir("C:\pil"):
imgdoc=fitz.open(os.path.join("C:\pil",img))
imgdoc.convertToPDF()
imgdoc.close()

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Memory usage should come down

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• Operating system, potentially version and bitness
• Python version, bitness
• PyMuPDF version, installation method (wheel or generated from source).

Windows 10 4 gb RAM

For example, the output of print(sys.version, "\n", sys.platform, "\n", fitz.__doc__) would be sufficient (for the first two bullets).

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