>Number:         32131
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       negative values of ps -aux if RAM > 2 GB
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 20 19:59:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Reinhold Roppert
>Release:        2.1
>Organization:
RM.ROPPERT
>Environment:
NetBSD nbsd3.rmroppert.com 2.1 NetBSD 2.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Nov 15 17:56:58 CET 2005 root@nbsd3.rmroppert.com:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386

>Description:

Output of ps -aux gives negative values for %MEM if the RAM of the machine is >2GB.
USER      PID %CPU  %MEM   VSZ    RSS TT  STAT STARTED    TIME COMMAND
root        0  0.0 -461.4     0 304440 ??  DKs   6:53PM 0:00.00 [swapper]
root        1  0.0  -1.1    60    736 ??  Is    6:53PM 0:00.06 init

the output of sysctl gives:

hw.physmem = -67571712
hw.usermem = -68460544
hw.physmem64 = 4227395584
hw.usermem64 = 4226506752

this occures after fresh installed system from CD with GENERIC Kernel



>How-To-Repeat:
Install NetBSD from CD, use RAM >2GB, do ps -aux and sysctl
Remove RAM till RAM <2GB, do ps -aux and sysctl
>Fix: