

Cutting the head combustion chamber to match the new +3mm big-bore kit was first on the list, but that was just the beginning. Jamie is the mad scientist behind much of what goes on at Twisted Development, and before he got on the computer and started figuring out new maps for our 250SX-F project, he had to do some head modifications. While we had the bike apart, we sent the main frame to Chris Johnson at San Diego Powder Coating for some bright orange coating. We found some neglected bearings that didn’t need to be replaced but were definitely in need of some TLC and grease. Because the bike was used, we decided to tear it all the way down for an in-depth inspection, and it’s a good thing we did. Factory Connection did re-valve both ends internally, trying to increase rider comfort on small chop, but we weren’t done with the chassis yet. Our target setup was geared towards a vet intermediate rider, so we retained the use of a stock shock spring and used pretty much stock air settings in the AER-48 fork. All oil, seals and bushings were replaced. Factory Connection went through the suspension completely. We had a set of AER-48 air forks, so we put those on right away. If you remember, 2016 was the last year of WP 4CS forks. The 2016–’18 chassis and engine configuration are almost identical, or at least close enough for what we had planned. We found a 2016 KTM 250SX-F in decent shape online, so we bought it. We might have to break a few rules along the way, but that is okay with us Test rider Spencer Clark was all smiles after riding our KTM big-bore project. We decided to see if we could make the previous-generation 250SX-F better than the current model for the average rider. The stock KTM is a pro-level machine that’s a little demanding for amateurs.

So any files (including log files, and again, any background temp files opened by libraries you might not even be aware of) can get silently corrupted or truncated if you don't manage access to them carefully.In 2019 KTM made huge changes to the 250SX-F, and now with the shootout results published, the story isn’t that different. There's a flag for telling file descriptors to close on exec - but no such flag to have them close on fork.Many libraries, famously all of the libraries that make up the systems on macOS and iOS, cannot handle fork() correctly and will simply crash your program if you attempt to use them after fork but before exec.So forked processes in Python tend to accumulate a much larger copied set than, say, forked C programs. Incrementing or decrementing a refcount is a write operation, which means that whole page (not just that one object) gets copied back into your process. You might think you're only touching certain areas of your application memory, but thanks to Python's reference counting, any object which you even peripherally look at (or is present on the stack) may have reference counts being incremented or decremented.Don't run any threads in your application? Have you audited every library you use, every one of its dependencies, to ensure that none of them have ever or will ever use a background thread for anything? This means that any thread in the middle of modifying some global state will leave things half-broken, possibly holding some locks which will never be released. Forking copies your current process state, but doesn't copy the state of threads.As you've discovered, it has lots of very peculiar interactions with process state, that spawnProcess will manage for you. The subprocess does not need to use Twisted, or, indeed, even be in Python.ĭo not call os.fork yourself.

IReactorProcess.spawnProcess (usually available as from twisted.internet import reactor reactor.spawnProcess) can spawn a process running any available executable on your system.
