Chris Langton <chrislangto...@gmail.com> added the comment:

interestingly, while it is expected Process or Queue would actually close 
resource file descriptors and doesn't because a dev decided they prefer to 
defer to the user how to manage gc themselves, the interesting thing is if you 
'upgrade' your code to use a pool, the process fd will be closed as the pool 
will destroy the object (so it is gc more often);

Say you're limited to a little over 1000 fd in your o/s you can do this

#######################################################################

import multiprocessing
import json


def process(data):
    with open('/tmp/fd/%d.json' % data['name'], 'w') as f:
        f.write(json.dumps(data))
    return 'processed %d' % data['name']

if __name__ == '__main__':
    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(1000)
    try:
        for _ in range(10000000):
            x = {'name': _}
            pool.apply(process, args=(x,))
    finally:
        pool.close()
        del pool

#######################################################################

only the pool fd hangs around longer then it should, which is a huge 
improvement, and you might not find a scenario where you need many pool objects.

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