From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 06:21:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note that maxtasksperchild is new in 3.2.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a4~504
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=17ef0d51d74be30306ceadfdb7f033e82a891670;p=python

Note that maxtasksperchild is new in 3.2.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 09d6de9976..65c64e19b2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -1559,20 +1559,21 @@ with the :class:`Pool` class.
    *initializer* is not ``None`` then each worker process will call
    ``initializer(*initargs)`` when it starts.
 
-   *maxtasksperchild* is the number of tasks a worker process can complete
-   before it will exit and be replaced with a fresh worker process, to enable
-   unused resources to be freed. The default *maxtasksperchild* is None, which
-   means worker processes will live as long as the pool.
+   .. versionadded:: 3.2
+      *maxtasksperchild* is the number of tasks a worker process can complete
+      before it will exit and be replaced with a fresh worker process, to enable
+      unused resources to be freed. The default *maxtasksperchild* is None, which
+      means worker processes will live as long as the pool.
 
    .. note::
 
-        Worker processes within a :class:`Pool` typically live for the complete
-        duration of the Pool's work queue. A frequent pattern found in other
-        systems (such as Apache, mod_wsgi, etc) to free resources held by
-        workers is to allow a worker within a pool to complete only a set
-        amount of work before being exiting, being cleaned up and a new
-        process spawned to replace the old one. The *maxtasksperchild*
-        argument to the :class:`Pool` exposes this ability to the end user.
+      Worker processes within a :class:`Pool` typically live for the complete
+      duration of the Pool's work queue. A frequent pattern found in other
+      systems (such as Apache, mod_wsgi, etc) to free resources held by
+      workers is to allow a worker within a pool to complete only a set
+      amount of work before being exiting, being cleaned up and a new
+      process spawned to replace the old one. The *maxtasksperchild*
+      argument to the :class:`Pool` exposes this ability to the end user.
 
    .. method:: apply(func[, args[, kwds]])