billiard a multiprocessing py2 fork/backport has https://billiard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/library/multiprocessing.html#multi... with maxtasksperchild On Sat, 26 Jun 2021, 16:57 Ram Rachum, <ram@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`?
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