I'm using concurrent.futures to implement multiprocessing. I am getting a queue.Full error, which is odd because I am only assigning 10 jobs. import numpy as np from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor A_list = [np.random.rand(2000, 2000) for i in range(10)] with ProcessPoolExecutor() as pool: pool.map(np.linalg.svd, A_list) error: Exception in thread Thread-9: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line 921, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/threading.py", line 869, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/concurrent/futures/process.py", line 251, in _queue_management_worker shutdown_worker() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/concurrent/futures/process.py", line 209, in shutdown_worker call_queue.put_nowait(None) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 131, in put_nowait return self.put(obj, False) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 82, in put raise Full queue.Full Continue reading...