From 6370898b2ff060b5467aaf99175c5ef648820607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nelson Minar <nelson@monkey.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:36:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't set maxtasksperchild in the pool. This seems to fix an
 idle worker problem, see issue #51

---
 openaddr/jobs.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/openaddr/jobs.py b/openaddr/jobs.py
index bf3cddfd..e3e7e69f 100644
--- a/openaddr/jobs.py
+++ b/openaddr/jobs.py
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ def run_all_process_ones(source_files, destination, source_extras):
     # Result collection object
     results = OrderedDict()
 
-    # Set up a pool to run our jobs, new process for each task
-    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=thread_count, maxtasksperchild=1)
+    # Set up a pool to run our jobs. (don't use maxtasksperchild, causes problems.)
+    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=thread_count)
 
     # Start the tasks. Results can arrive out of order.
     _L.info("Running tasks in pool with %d processes", thread_count)