multiprocessing is just pretty broken in general. I've never been able to get it to work well in FreeBSD in particular. Essentially python calls all sorts of un

multiprocessing is just pretty broken in general. I've never been able to get it to work well in FreeBSD in particular. Essentially python calls all sorts of unsafe routines after the fork, here's an example bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue3770 http://bugs.python.org/issue3770