bpo-35715: Liberate return value of _process_worker (GH-11514)
ProcessPoolExecutor workers will hold the return value of their last task in memory until the next task is received. Since the return value has already been propagated to the parent process's Future (or has been discarded by this point), the object can be safely released.
diff --git a/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py b/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py
index ce7d642..9b85e7f 100644
--- a/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py
+++ b/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@
_sendback_result(result_queue, call_item.work_id, exception=exc)
else:
_sendback_result(result_queue, call_item.work_id, result=r)
+ del r
# Liberate the resource as soon as possible, to avoid holding onto
# open files or shared memory that is not needed anymore