[New-bugs-announce] [issue5331] multiprocessing hangs when Pool used within Process

[mike bayer]

New submission from mike bayer <mike_mp at zzzcomputing.com>:

this occurs for me running on Mac OSX Leopard.   The equivalent code
using "processing" in python 2.5 works fine, which is how I found this
bug - my code hung when upgraded to 2.6.    Basically initiating a
multiprocessing.Pool inside of multiprocessing.Process hangs the
application.  Below is code which illustrates the issue on both py2.6
and py3.0:

    from multiprocessing import Pool, Process
    import sys

    def f(x):
        return x*x

    def go():
        pool = Pool(processes=4)              
        x = pool.map(f, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
        sys.stdout.write("result: %s\n" % x)

    def go2():
        x = map(f, [1,2,3,4,5,6,7])
        sys.stdout.write("result: %s\n" % x)

    # pool alone, fine
    go()

    # process alone, fine
    p = Process(target=go2)
    p.start()
    p.join()

    # use both, hangs
    p = Process(target=go)
    p.start()
    p.join()

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 82534
nosy: zzzeek
severity: normal
status: open
title: multiprocessing hangs when Pool used within Process
type: crash
versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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