I am not using XGBoost and honestly don't much about the way its implemented. 
However, have you checked if memory swapping could be an issue if you are doing 
multiprocessing? Maybe it's using so much RAM due to creating multiple copies 
that it just feels like it stopped? Just a thought :P

> On Feb 24, 2016, at 11:42 AM, Stylianos Kampakis 
> <stylianos.kampa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Joel,
> 
> I ran lots of tests today and I realized that it is XGBRegressor (a wrapper 
> for XGboost) that is guilty. However, it doesn't always stop. It does only 
> some times. Any ideas why this might be happening?
> 
> 2016-02-24 0:38 GMT+00:00 Joel Nothman <joel.noth...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:joel.noth...@gmail.com>>:
> What estimator(s) are you searching over? How big is your data?
> 
> On 24 February 2016 at 06:15, Stylianos Kampakis 
> <stylianos.kampa...@gmail.com <mailto:stylianos.kampa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Sometimes, when I am using random search with n_jobs>1 the processing stops. 
> I am on a Mac. I went through some discussions on Github where people said it 
> relates joblib and this problem is more common on Mac. However, I couldn't 
> find the answer to two questions I have:
> 
> 1) Why the processing stops only some times and not every single time?
> 
> 2) Have any people managed to find a workaround?
> 
> Thank you all in advance,
> 
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