i'm sure rebooting would solve the problem.  that seems like the easy way out.
there seems to be a real bug here, and i'd like to figure out what's going on.

were you using a multiprocessor?

- erik

On Mon Aug  7 20:47:05 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i've seen this behaviour before. start 'stats' and see whether it
> updates unreasonably fast/slow. reboot fixed the problem in my case
> and i've only seen it a couple of times circa 2003 or so...
> 
> > it seems to me that the problem must be in the kernel and sleep (thus the
> > kernel's fastticks) must be running too fast.

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