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This is fake the pid of the younger guy is smaller than that of grandpa
Their age is measured in CPU time
and their niceness increases with age
Could be an instance of BSD where (so I hear) PIDs are assigned randomly from the unused numbers, or else the system has massive process churn going on elsewhere and the old timer is from a previous cycle of consecutive PIDs.
Some systems still have
/proc/sys/kernel/pid_maxset to something around 32768, so wrapping back to 0 can happen fairly often.Given all the PIDs in the comic seem pretty low, it might even be as low as 1024 wherever this is.
(Yes, I know I'm taking this way too seriously.)