Is there any documentation or best practices on managing processes, multiprocessing, subprocesses, threading, etc. with Python in Balena apps and services?

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Is there any documentation or best practices on managing processes, multiprocessing, subprocesses, threading, etc. with Python in Balena apps and services?

I am managing a complicated app with multiple containers running. I’ve tested different type of multiprocessing and threading using python and I’ve seen many instances will processes will continue on after a container is killed. I am just looking for some deeper information on best practices for managing multiple python processes inside of docker/balenaOS containers or tools that might be available to make this easier and cleaner.

Thanks!

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Hello @zswiftscience first of all, welcome to the balena community.

I’m not sure we do have any best practices here but i found this interesting conversation Increase the default maximum number of tasks for balenaEngine · Issue #1844 · balena-os/meta-balena · GitHub

Or this message in the forums → balenaOS 2.46.1+rev1 crashed with pthread_create failed: Resource temporarily unavailable - #14

Let me know if this is enough, if not please do share more details and we will try to help you more

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Hi there, did you have a chance to look at the links Marc suggested? Were they of any help?