New submission from Thomas Buhrmann <thomas.buehrm...@gmail.com>:

When mixing code that spawns subprocesses with code that creates event loops, 
Python appears to deadlock.

In the attached example, when WORKERS = 16 and ASYNC_WORKERS = 8, Python will 
sometimes (50% of the time?) deadlock, never exiting, with no exceptions 
raised. Oddly, if ASYNC_WORKERS is set to 0 or 16 (i.e., only subprocesses or 
only event loops), it runs reliably.

I tested this in an x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.2 VM with Python 3.8.6. I was only able 
to reproduce it when the VM had more than one CPU, and I was unable to 
reproduce it on x86_64 MacOS.

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files: subprocess_asyncio_deadlock.py
messages: 391386
nosy: thomas
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Deadlock when mixing event loops and subprocesses
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file49967/subprocess_asyncio_deadlock.py

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