multiprocessing.Queue 项目的最大大小?

I'm working on a fairly large project in Python that requires one of the compute-intensive background tasks to be offloaded to another core, so that the main service isn't slowed down. I've come across some apparently strange behaviour when using multiprocessing.Queue to communicate results from the worker process. Using the same queue for both a threading.Thread and a multiprocessing.Process for comparison purposes, the thread works just fine but the process fails to join after putting a large item in the queue. Observe:

import threading
import multiprocessing

class WorkerThread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, queue, size):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.queue = queue
        self.size = size

    def run(self):
        self.queue.put(range(size))


class WorkerProcess(multiprocessing.Process):
    def __init__(self, queue, size):
        multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self)
        self.queue = queue
        self.size = size

    def run(self):
        self.queue.put(range(size))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    size = 100000
    queue = multiprocessing.Queue()

    worker_t = WorkerThread(queue, size)
    worker_p = WorkerProcess(queue, size)

    worker_t.start()
    worker_t.join()
    print 'thread results length:', len(queue.get())

    worker_p.start()
    worker_p.join()
    print 'process results length:', len(queue.get())

我发现这对于 size = 10000 工作正常，但对于 size = 100000 会挂在 worker_p.join().multiprocessing.Process 实例可以放入 multiprocessing.Queue 的内容是否存在一些固有的大小限制?还是我在这里犯了一些明显的根本性错误?