New submission from Jorgen Skancke :
A normal way to start a multiprocessing-pool is like this:
Multiprocessing.Pool(processes=some_number).
However, if 'some_number' is 0 or negative, Python hangs and must be killed. I
would expect an error message of the type: "Number of pr
Jorgen Skancke added the comment:
I recently ran into this problem when I tried to multiprocess jobs with large
objects (3-4 GB). I have plenty of memory for this, but multiprocessing hangs
without error, presumably because pickle hangs without error when
multiprocessing tries to pickle the
