Charles-François Natali added the comment: That's due to a leak in forker-registered handlers: The _afterfork_registry is never cleared, so spawning processes recursively keeps feeling it, which ends up consuming a huge amount of memory and slowing process creation greatly.
Could you try the attached patch? ---------- keywords: +patch nosy: +neologix Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29592/afterfork.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17555> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
