I came across a couple of new (to me) uses of queues recently. When I came up with the title to this article I knew I had to write them up together. Queues in Dask Over at the Coiled Blog, Gabe Joseph has a nice post summarizing a huge amount of effort addressing a problem that’s been vexing demanding Dask users for years. The main symptom of the problem was unexpectedly high memory usage on workers, leading to crashing workers (which in turn caused even more network communication, and so m...
