While writing and stress-testing a Python script which uses the multiprocessing library, I ran into the problem that occasionally the script hangs at the end. Literally runs past the last line of code and then hangs.
In this script I’m using Queues and Events, so I made sure that I properly close the queues in the forked/spawned (tried both) processes and also clean out all queues in the parent. Nevertheless occasionally - like seldom, but it happens - the script hangs. Checked the process list, checked remaining threads, checked the queues, all fine. Still …