html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2186#issuecomment-1035593183,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2186,1035593183,IC_kwDOAMm_X849ueXf,2273361,2022-02-10T22:24:37Z,2022-02-10T22:24:37Z,NONE,"Hey folks, I ran into a similar memory leak issue. In my case a had the following:

    for num in range(100):
        ds = xr.open_dataset('data.{}.nc'.format(num)) # This data was compressed with zlib, not sure if that matters

        # do some stuff, but NOT assigning any data in ds to new variables

        del ds

For some reason (maybe having to do with the `# do some stuff`), `ds` wasn't actually getting cleared. I was able to fix the problem by manually triggering garbage collection (`import gc`, and `gc.collect()` after the `del ds` statement). Perhaps this will help others who end up here...","{""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 2, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,326533369