diff --git a/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py b/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py
index 71cb7db..6de3956 100644
--- a/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py
+++ b/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py
@@ -1038,10 +1038,8 @@ class InteractiveShell(Configurable, Magic):
         self.user_ns.update(ns)
 
     def reset(self, new_session=True):
-        """Clear all internal namespaces.
-
-        Note that this is much more aggressive than %reset, since it clears
-        fully all namespaces, as well as all input/output lists.
+        """Clear all internal namespaces, and attempt to release references to
+        user objects.
         
         If new_session is True, a new history session will be opened.
         """
@@ -1078,6 +1076,9 @@ class InteractiveShell(Configurable, Magic):
         # Flush the private list of module references kept for script
         # execution protection
         self.clear_main_mod_cache()
+        
+        # Clear out the namespace from the last %run
+        self.new_main_mod()
 
     def reset_selective(self, regex=None):
         """Clear selective variables from internal namespaces based on a
diff --git a/IPython/core/tests/tclass.py b/IPython/core/tests/tclass.py
index c9ec7fc..38b3a5a 100644
--- a/IPython/core/tests/tclass.py
+++ b/IPython/core/tests/tclass.py
@@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ import sys
 class C(object):
     def __init__(self,name):
         self.name = name
+        self.flush_stdout = sys.stdout.flush
         
     def __del__(self):
         print 'tclass.py: deleting object:',self.name
-        sys.stdout.flush()
+        self.flush_stdout()
 
 try:
     name = sys.argv[1]
diff --git a/IPython/core/tests/test_run.py b/IPython/core/tests/test_run.py
index 159a2f1..14b0fe4 100644
--- a/IPython/core/tests/test_run.py
+++ b/IPython/core/tests/test_run.py
@@ -202,5 +202,6 @@ class TestMagicRunSimple(tt.TempFileMixin):
 ARGV 1-: [u'C-first']
 ARGV 1-: [u'C-second']
 tclass.py: deleting object: C-first
+tclass.py: deleting object: C-second
 """
         tt.ipexec_validate(self.fname, out)