[issue25829] Mixing multiprocessing pool and subprocess may create zombie process, and cause program to hang.

Ami Koren added the comment: Thanks David. using spawn - multiprocessing.get_context('spawn').Pool(... - does the job . It does has it's flows - fork allows me to share data between workers (especially large readonly memory database, which I don't want to duplicate for

[issue25829] Mixing multiprocessing pool and subprocess may create zombie process, and cause program to hang.

New submission from Ami Koren: Happens on Linux (Debian), Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 . Seems like a multiprocessing issue. When I use both multiprocessing pool and subprocess somewhere in the same python program, sometimes the subprocess become 'zombie', and the parent wait for