old_contents: import datetime
  import multiprocessing
  
  from django.conf import settings
  from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
  
  from core.models import WebPage, PageScrapeResult
  from core.views import scrape_url
  
  
  class Command(BaseCommand):
      help = "Poll all the urls and scrape the results"
      can_import_settings = True
  
      def handle(self, *args, **options):
          pool = multiprocessing.Pool(multiprocessing.cpu_count() + 2)
          today = int(datetime.date.today().strftime("%s"))
          now = datetime.datetime.now()
          curr_time = float(int(now.strftime("%s")) - now.second)
          mins_passed = curr_time - today
          for page in WebPage.objects.all():
              if mins_passed % page.interval == 0 or settings.DEBUG:
                  pool.apply_async(scrape_url, (page, ))
          pool.close()
          pool.join()
  
new_contents: import datetime
  import multiprocessing
  
  from django.conf import settings
  from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
  
  from core.models import WebPage, PageScrapeResult
  from core.views import scrape_url
  
  
  class Command(BaseCommand):
      help = "Poll all the urls and scrape the results"
      can_import_settings = True
  
      def handle(self, *args, **options):
          pool = multiprocessing.Pool(multiprocessing.cpu_count())
          today = int(datetime.date.today().strftime("%s"))
          now = datetime.datetime.now()
          curr_time = float(int(now.strftime("%s")) - now.second)
          mins_passed = curr_time - today
          for page in WebPage.objects.all():
              if mins_passed % page.interval == 0 or settings.DEBUG:
                  pool.apply_async(scrape_url, (page, ))
          pool.close()
          pool.join()
  
subject: Reduce the number of processes used.