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why after starting 150 web spider threads ... I proposed that each of those threads was a separate process,

Which is it? Threads or processes?

If it is threads, then there are internal locks, but they are mostly to do with (explicitly) shared memory.

More likely is that those 150 threads are over-subscribing his memory and forcing swapping. Have him check top/Process Manager.

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