Proctitle "gvmd: Syncing SCAP"

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What exactly does the proctitle “gvmd: Syncing SCAP” mean?
I updated all the feeds and restarted gvmd as well as openvassd - now gvmd is reporting multiple proctitles:

root     31972  0.3  0.2 312796 83660 ?        SL   16:09   0:01 gvmd: Waiting for incoming connections
root     31992 99.2  3.3 1316956 1081852 ?     R    16:09   7:35 gvmd: Syncing SCAP
root     32057 99.8  0.2 321916 79480 ?        Rl   16:10   7:09 gvmd: Serving client

Is “Syncing SCAP” some step in processing the updated feeds?

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With GVM 10 you don’t need to restart openvassd and gvmd anymore. They are updating the nvt, scap and cert data automatically.

SCAP data contains information about CVEs and CPEs.

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As an addition the related ChangeLog entry for GVMd to this change:

The gvm daemon automatically detects new SCAP and CERT data as well as when new
NVTs are available from the OpenVAS Scanner and will load/update the database
accordingly. Therefore the --rebuild, --update and --progress options have
been removed.

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So basically "gvmd: Syncing SCAP” means: The system noticed a change in the feeds and is reloading them (which obviously can take quite some time).