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Why is the pid for my iex sessions always the same?

In between restarts of iex process, on my machine, why is its pid always the same?

iex> self
#PID<0.81.0>
iex>
^C
BREAK: (a)bort (c)ontinue (p)roc info (i)nfo (l)oaded
       (v)ersion (k)ill (D)b-tables (d)istribution

Again

iex> self
#PID<0.81.0>

Why is the pid value always #PID<0.81.0>?

Solution

  • Process ids are assigned in order, and every time you start iex, the same number of processes are started.