probably a result of ntp doing its thing, but this struck me as
odd:

|tartaros[/data/scratch] 95v#: ps aux | sed -ne '1p' -e '/ntpd/p'
|USER      PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ   RSS TT STAT STARTED     TIME COMMAND
|root      601  0.0  0.6 1092  2968 ?? Ss   14Dec05 -9:-3.64 /usr/sbin/ntpd 

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Malcolm Herbert
Computer Support Officer
School of Geosciences
Monash University
ph 9905 4881