Maximum size for multiprocessing.Queue item?

Question

I\'m working on a fairly large project in Python that requires one of the compute-intensive background tasks to be offloaded to another core, so that the main service isn\'t

Answer 1

Seems the underlying pipe is full, so the feeder thread blocks on the write to the pipe (actually when trying to acquire the lock protecting the pipe from concurrent access).

Check this issue http://bugs.python.org/issue8237