[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously

[Jesse Noller]

On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Dj Gilcrease <digitalxero at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been playing with the feedback branch of this package for py3
> and there seems to be a rather serious bug in the Process version.
> Using the code @ http://dpaste.com/hold/168795/
>
> When I was running in debug mode I found that as soon as
>
>            p = multiprocessing.Process(
>                    target=_process_worker,
>                    args=(self._call_queue,
>                          self._result_queue,
>                          self._shutdown_process_event))
>
> was called (yes even before p.start() was called) the processes just
> started launching all by themselves.
>

Did you run the provided example code on windows by chance? If so,  
look at the multiprocessing docs, there are restrictions on windows  
(see the __main__ note) - not following the guidelines can result in  
lots of processes spawning.