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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-2081:
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I think this has to do with the general policy around forking with an embedded
JVM. It may not be supported, but I didn't turn up any immediate references
> Hdfs client isn't fork-safe
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>
> Key: ARROW-2081
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2081
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: C++, Python
> Reporter: Jim Crist
> Priority: Major
>
> Given the following script:
>
> {code:java}
> import multiprocessing as mp
> import pyarrow as pa
> def ls(h):
> print("calling ls")
> return h.ls("/tmp")
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> h = pa.hdfs.connect()
> print("Using 'spawn'")
> pool = mp.get_context('spawn').Pool(2)
> results = pool.map(ls, [h, h])
> sol = h.ls("/tmp")
> for r in results:
> assert r == sol
> print("'spawn' succeeded\n")
> print("Using 'fork'")
> pool = mp.get_context('fork').Pool(2)
> results = pool.map(ls, [h, h])
> sol = h.ls("/tmp")
> for r in results:
> assert r == sol
> print("'fork' succeeded")
> {code}
>
> Results in the following output:
>
> {code:java}
> $ python test.py
> Using 'spawn'
> calling ls
> calling ls
> 'spawn' succeeded
> Using 'fork{code}
>
> The process then hangs, and I have to `kill -9` the forked worker processes.
>
> I'm unable to get the libhdfs3 driver to work, so I'm unsure if this is a
> problem with libhdfs or just arrow's use of it (a quick google search didn't
> turn up anything useful).
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