billiard a multiprocessing py2 fork/backport has
https://billiard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.pool.multiprocessing.Pool
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2021, 16:57 Ram Rachum, <r...@rachum.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I want to have a version of `concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor` in
> which every worker process shuts down after each task. I want this because
> I believe I have a memory leak in my program that I wasn't able to fix.
> (Possibly it's in C extensions that I use.)
>
> Since I'm going to use a process pool anyway, I'm hoping to sidestep this
> memory leak by launching every task on a worker process that shuts down
> after it's done.
>
> A few years back when I was working at Dell, they did something similar.
> They had a Python server that had a memory leak, and they worked around it
> by having a process that can be easily restarted, and then they restarted
> it often.
>
> The plan is that each new work item will run on a fresh process that has
> no memory leaks from previous work items.
>
> I looked at the `futures/process.py` file to see whether I could subclass
> `ProcessPoolExecutor` and add this functionality, and boy oh boy this is
> not easy.
>
> Do you think it's worthwhile to add this feature to `ProcessPoolExecutor`?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ram.
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