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Author neologix
Recipients Marc.Brünink, neologix
Date 2013-03-27.07:53:28
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That's due to a leak in forker-registered handlers:
The _afterfork_registry is never cleared, so spawning processes recursively keeps feeling it, which ends up consuming a huge amount of memory and slowing process creation greatly.

Could you try the attached patch?
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2013-03-27 07:53:28neologixsetrecipients: + neologix, Marc.Brünink
2013-03-27 07:53:28neologixsetmessageid: <1364370808.74.0.938089617001.issue17555@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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