On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Mike Bayer <mbayer at redhat.com> wrote: > So, option “A”, they call engine.dispose() the moment they’re in a fork, the activity upon requesting a connection from the pool is: look in pool, no connections present, create a connection and return it. FWIW, this is what Neutron does: https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/c9713d09/neutron/wsgi.py#L104 Carl