VisionSystemsInc / VisionSystemsInc/terra
ProcessPoolExecutor deadlocks on on python 3.9 or newer
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Description
Starting in python 3.9.0, using a ProcessPoolExecutor has a good chance of deadlocking on a terra task. It's almost always happens with 10 workers, and is practically guaranteed with 16 workers.
I've managed to put together a piece of code to reproduce the error:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, as_completed
from celery import shared_task
@shared_task
def foo(x):
return x*x
if __name__ == '__main__':
futures = {}
with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=10) as executor:
for x in range(10):
futures[executor.submit(foo, x)] = x
results = {}
for future in as_completed(futures):
task_id = futures[future]
results[task_id] = future.result()
print(len(results))
As you can see here, the bug is actually not part of terra, but can be reproduced just using the celery task object. Something about how celery works and a "task" vs a "function" is causing workers to hang before they ever process a single job.
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Start with the supplied reproducer using ProcessPoolExecutor and the Celery shared_task object, then compare its behavior with a plain function on Python 3.9 or newer. Investigate why workers hang before processing jobs and verify the result with 10 and 16 workers; done means the reproducer completes without deadlocking.
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- python
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