diff --git a/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py b/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
index 8d96794496..2a040998e1 100644
--- a/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
+++ b/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import sys, functools
+import sys, atexit, functools, pickle
 from collections import defaultdict, deque
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import FrozenSet, Set, Tuple, List, Dict, Optional, DefaultDict
@@ -211,9 +211,15 @@ def full_ast_rewrite(pre:UOp, ctx:ScheduleContext) -> Tuple[UOp, ScheduleItemCon
         and ShapeTracker.from_shape(s.shape).shrink(m) == s.shrink(m)) for x in ops):
       raise RuntimeError("self operand of augmented assign must be contiguous.\nhelp: consider using .contiguous():\n"
                          +colored("   - a += a.T\n", "red")+colored("   + a += a.T.contiguous()", "green"))
-  if getenv("RUN_PROCESS_REPLAY"): diskcache_put("schedule_process_replay", str(pre.key), (pre, si_ctx.assigns, {}, sink))
+  if getenv("RUN_PROCESS_REPLAY"): PROCESS_REPLAY_CAPTURE[str(pre.key)] = pickle.dumps((pre, si_ctx.assigns, {}, sink))
   return sink, si_ctx
 
+PROCESS_REPLAY_CAPTURE: Dict[str, bytes] = {}
+if getenv("RUN_PROCESS_REPLAY"):
+  @atexit.register
+  def save_process_replay() -> None:
+    for k,v in PROCESS_REPLAY_CAPTURE.items(): diskcache_put("schedule_process_replay", k, v, prepickled=True)
+
 # **** Schedule grouping
 
 def uval(u:UOp) -> UOp:
diff --git a/tinygrad/helpers.py b/tinygrad/helpers.py
index 5278696b9c..35262eb633 100644
--- a/tinygrad/helpers.py
+++ b/tinygrad/helpers.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def diskcache_get(table:str, key:Union[Dict, str, int]) -> Any:
   return None
 
 _db_tables = set()
-def diskcache_put(table:str, key:Union[Dict, str, int], val:Any):
+def diskcache_put(table:str, key:Union[Dict, str, int], val:Any, prepickled=False):
   if CACHELEVEL == 0: return val
   if isinstance(key, (str,int)): key = {"key": key}
   conn = db_connection()
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ def diskcache_put(table:str, key:Union[Dict, str, int], val:Any):
     ltypes = ', '.join(f"{k} {TYPES[type(key[k])]}" for k in key.keys())
     cur.execute(f"CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS '{table}_{VERSION}' ({ltypes}, val blob, PRIMARY KEY ({', '.join(key.keys())}))")
     _db_tables.add(table)
-  cur.execute(f"REPLACE INTO '{table}_{VERSION}' ({', '.join(key.keys())}, val) VALUES ({', '.join(['?']*len(key.keys()))}, ?)", tuple(key.values()) + (pickle.dumps(val), ))  # noqa: E501
+  cur.execute(f"REPLACE INTO '{table}_{VERSION}' ({', '.join(key.keys())}, val) VALUES ({', '.join(['?']*len(key.keys()))}, ?)", tuple(key.values()) + (val if prepickled else pickle.dumps(val), ))  # noqa: E501
   conn.commit()
   cur.close()
   return val