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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.)