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Reminder that on Linux multiprocessing is broken out of the box, and you need to configure it to not freeze your process at random: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/python-multiprocessing/

(This will be fixed in future Python versions, 3.14 maybe.)

TLDR: If you fork the process after starting threads you're gonna have a bad time, so use spawn instead of fork, like this:

  from multiprocessing import set_start_method
  set_start_method("spawn")

If I understand correctly, this is about combining multiprocessing and multithreading?