>> (note these aren't threads, but processes)
Fair enough, I should be more careful with terminology.

 > Ok, can you try to move the getLogger call from _Producer.__init__ 
to,> _Producer.run?,> (same for _Consumer)

Yes, that seems to work fine. One thing, however, that this would mean 
that I would have to declare logger in any method outside of __init__, 
like in shutdown()  for example.