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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:39:47 +1100
Subject: Re: script uses up all memory
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a script that forks off other processes and attempts to manage
> them. Here is a stripped down version of the script:
>
>         self.sleepTime = 300

That's not a stand-alone script. What environment is it running in?
Can you reproduce the problem outside of that environment?

Also: Can you simply use multiprocessing rather than going through all
the effort of subprocess.Popen?

ChrisA