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fix: terminate interrupted parallel workers - #670
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A worker that survives termination can delay iterator closure and remain unmanaged. Bound the final joins and retain or stop surviving workers before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change improves shutdown of partially consumed streams, but reusing a pool after an interrupted run can cause a later completed run to skip its normal queue synchronization. The observed scope is the workers belonging to that pool; no new cross-service access or verified security issue was established. Retained concerns
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In `@fastembed/parallel_processor.py`:
- Around line 211-212: Update the emergency shutdown flow around
join_or_terminate to join every worker after process.terminate(), using the
existing timeout, before clearing self.processes. Extend both emergency-shutdown
tests to verify that each terminated worker receives the second join() call.
- Line 156: Reset ParallelWorkerPool.emergency_shutdown to False at the
beginning of start(), before creating new queues, so a reused pool performs
normal join_thread() cleanup after a prior early close. Add a test covering
sequential reuse of the same pool after early shutdown.
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104-110: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert worker termination after pool reuse.
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first_results.close(), this test checks the emergency flag and queue cancellation, but it does not checkfirst_process.terminate()or the boundedjoin()calls. A regression limited to a reused pool could leave the first worker alive and still pass this test. Add the worker lifecycle assertions used by the fresh-pool test.Proposed assertions
first_results.close() assert pool.emergency_shutdown is True + assert first_process.join.call_args_list == [call(timeout=1), call(timeout=1)] + first_process.terminate.assert_called_once_with() first_input_queue.cancel_join_thread.assert_called_once_with()🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@tests/test_parallel_processor.py` around lines 104 - 110, Extend the reused-pool assertions after first_results.close() to verify first_process.terminate() was called and that its bounded join() calls match the fresh-pool test. Keep the existing emergency_shutdown and queue cancellation assertions unchanged, using the same lifecycle assertion pattern and timeout expectations already established for the fresh-pool case.
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In `@tests/test_parallel_processor.py`:
- Around line 104-110: Extend the reused-pool assertions after
first_results.close() to verify first_process.terminate() was called and that
its bounded join() calls match the fresh-pool test. Keep the existing
emergency_shutdown and queue cancellation assertions unchanged, using the same
lifecycle assertion pattern and timeout expectations already established for the
fresh-pool case.
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In `@fastembed/parallel_processor.py`:
- Line 257: Update the worker shutdown flow around process.join and
self.processes.clear() to use one shared deadline for the second joins,
preventing wait time from growing with the worker count. Do not discard
processes that remain alive; escalate their shutdown or retain them in
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep the emergency shutdown bounded and retain live workers.
If a worker ignores SIGTERM, terminate() does not stop it. Line 257 then waits up to timeout for each worker, so closing an iterator can take approximately num_workers × timeout. The subsequent self.processes.clear() also discards workers that remain alive. Use a shared deadline for the second joins. Escalate termination or retain any live processes for later cleanup. Python documents that POSIX terminate() sends SIGTERM and that a timed join() can return while a process is still running. (docs.python.org)
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In `@fastembed/parallel_processor.py` at line 257, Update the worker shutdown flow
around process.join and self.processes.clear() to use one shared deadline for
the second joins, preventing wait time from growing with the worker count. Do
not discard processes that remain alive; escalate their shutdown or retain them
in self.processes for later cleanup.
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Keeping SIGTERM. The workers don't install a SIGTERM handler, and spawn/forkserver start them
from a fresh process, so no handler is inherited from the parent. terminate() kills them right
away: exit -15 within ~6 ms, with fastembed, onnxruntime and the model loaded. Without a handler,
SIGTERM is as abrupt as SIGKILL, so escalating wouldn't change anything in practice.
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@joein, thanks for the worker details and the measured exit time. I agree that SIGKILL escalation is not warranted for workers with the default SIGTERM behavior.
I’ll keep this finding open because the second join(timeout=timeout) still has a separate timeout for each worker. self.processes.clear() can also discard a process if a timed join returns while it is still alive. I understand your decision to keep the current shutdown path.
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Repo: qdrant/fastembed PR: 670
File: fastembed/parallel_processor.py:257-257
Timestamp: 2026-09-26T11:58:19.268Z
Learning: In `fastembed/parallel_processor.py`, the parallel workers use spawn or forkserver in the discussed shutdown scenario. The workers do not install a SIGTERM handler, and these start methods do not inherit a SIGTERM handler from the parent. The author measured exit code -15 within approximately 6 ms after `terminate()`, with fastembed, onnxruntime, and the model loaded.
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pytest -q tests/test_parallel_processor.py tests/test_common.py(4 passed)ordered_map()close returns and leaves zero tracked processesruff check fastembed/parallel_processor.py tests/test_parallel_processor.pyruff format --check fastembed/parallel_processor.py tests/test_parallel_processor.pypytest --collect-only -q(92 tests collected)All Submissions
Closes #669