Merge pull request #3648 from alejoe91/thread-to-process

Use process as default in global job kwargs

Author: alejoe91

src/spikeinterface/core/globals.py

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ def is_set_global_dataset_folder() -> bool:
 
 ########################################
 _default_job_kwargs = dict(
-    pool_engine="thread", n_jobs=1, chunk_duration="1s", progress_bar=True, mp_context=None, max_threads_per_worker=1
+    pool_engine="process", n_jobs=1, chunk_duration="1s", progress_bar=True, mp_context=None, max_threads_per_worker=1
 )
 
 global global_job_kwargs

src/spikeinterface/core/tests/test_globals.py

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def test_global_tmp_folder(create_cache_folder):
 
 def test_global_job_kwargs():
     job_kwargs = dict(
-        pool_engine="thread",
+        pool_engine="process",
         n_jobs=4,
         chunk_duration="1s",
         progress_bar=True,
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def test_global_job_kwargs():
     global_job_kwargs = get_global_job_kwargs()
 
     assert global_job_kwargs == dict(
-        pool_engine="thread",
+        pool_engine="process",
         n_jobs=1,
         chunk_duration="1s",
         progress_bar=True,
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def test_global_job_kwargs():
     set_global_job_kwargs(**partial_job_kwargs)
     global_job_kwargs = get_global_job_kwargs()
     assert global_job_kwargs == dict(
-        pool_engine="thread",
+        pool_engine="process",
         n_jobs=2,
         chunk_duration="1s",
         progress_bar=True,