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On 10/13/2012 02:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:

> 
> Now, this does make me curious about some things running on my system.
> Two for instance, Google Chrome and akonadi_agent, have LOTS of pids.
> I was assuming those were different threads and were demonstrating
> what the OP was asking about, but now I'm not so sure. How does a
> single program on an nptl system generate all these different pids?

If I'm not mistaken, Chrome breaks out different tabs into different
processes (which you can see if you open "View Background Pages" from
the menu). I can't say anything about akonadi_agent, though.

> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
>