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Title: Possible race condition on multiprocessing.Manager().dict() on macOS
Type: behavior Stage:
Components: macOS Versions: Python 3.9
process
Status: open Resolution:
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: davin, jerryc05, ned.deily, pitrou, ronaldoussoren
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2021-04-07 19:12 by jerryc05, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.

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msg390468 - (view) Author: jerryc05 (jerryc05) Date: 2021-04-07 19:12
I am not sure if this is a bug or an expected case.

Long story short, I tried to print the content of a `multiprocessing.Manager().dict()` in the main thread, but I got a strange error.

I encountered this error only when the number of pools is rather large (>20) and only on `macOS` (works perfectly on `Linux`).

Specs:
```
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
macOS: 11.2.3
```

The minimum err code is attached:
```python3
#!/usr/bin/env python3

from contextlib import suppress
import multiprocessing as mp
import time


def run():
    D[mp.current_process().name] = 'some val'
    time.sleep(0.5)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    mp.set_start_method('fork')
    D, rets = mp.Manager().dict(), []
    with mp.Pool(25) as p:
        for _ in range(33):
            rets.append(p.apply_async(run))
        while rets:
            for ret in rets[:]:
                with suppress(mp.TimeoutError):
                    ret.get(timeout=0)
                    rets.remove(ret)
                    print(len(D))

```

Error: 
```
multiprocessing.pool.RemoteTraceback:
"""
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.2_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 801, in _callmethod
    conn = self._tls.connection
AttributeError: 'ForkAwareLocal' object has no attribute 'connection'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.2_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 125, in worker
    result = (True, func(*args, **kwds))
  File "/Users/???", line 9, in run
    D[mp.current_process().name] = 'some val'
  File "<string>", line 2, in __setitem__
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.2_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 805, in _callmethod
    self._connect()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.2_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 792, in _connect
    conn = self._Client(self._token.address, authkey=self._authkey)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.2_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 507, in Client
    c = SocketClient(address)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.2_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 635, in SocketClient
    s.connect(address)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 61] Connection refused
"""

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/???", line 22, in <module>
    ret.get(timeout=0)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.2_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 771, in get
    raise self._value
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 61] Connection refused
```
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:44adminsetgithub: 87934
2021-04-17 00:45:40ned.deilysetnosy: + pitrou, davin
2021-04-07 19:12:33jerryc05create