Ronny Rentner added the comment:
Many thanks for your explanation. It makes sense now.
One thing I've learned is that I need to get rid of the resource trackers for
shared memory, so I've applied the monkey patch fix mentioned in
https://bugs.python.org/issue38119
The issue i
Ronny Rentner added the comment:
Thanks for your quick response.
My bigger scope is real time audio and video processing where I use multiple
processes that need to be synchronized. I use shared memory for that.
As a small spin off, I've hacked together a dict that is using shared memo
New submission from Ronny Rentner :
According to
https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.html#multiprocessing.shared_memory.SharedMemory.close
if I call close() on a shared memory, it shall not be destroyed.
Unfortunately this is only true for Linux but not for
