Just noticed something peculiar with a recently compiled (after 25th June) 
kernel/userland for NetBSD 4.0_beta2. ps seems to report some process
elapsed times to generally be zero which doesn't tally with top etc. say.
e.g

root(anduin)tmp$ ps -ax |head -20
  PID TTY    STAT    TIME COMMAND
    0 ?      DKs  0:00.00 [swapper]
    1 ?      Is   0:00.00 init
    2 ?      DK   0:00.00 [atabus0]
    3 ?      DK   0:00.00 [atabus1]
    4 ?      DK   0:00.00 [usb0]
    5 ?      DK   0:00.00 [usbtask-hc]
    6 ?      DK   0:00.00 [usbtask-dr]
    7 ?      DK   0:00.00 [cryptoret]
    8 ?      DK   0:00.00 [pagedaemon]
    9 ?      DK   0:00.00 [ioflush]
   10 ?      DK   0:00.00 [aiodoned]
   44 ?      DK   0:00.00 [physiod]
   97 ?      I    0:00.00 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -k start
   98 ?      I    0:00.00 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -k start
   99 ?      I    0:00.00 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -k start
  253 ?      Is   0:00.00 /sbin/dhclient
  285 ?      I    0:00.00 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -k start
  315 ?      Ss   0:00.00 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
  474 ?      Ss   0:00.00 /usr/sbin/ntpd

root(anduin)tmp$ ident /bin/ps
/bin/ps:
     $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.16 2006/05/17 17:08:54 christos Exp $
     $NetBSD: keyword.c,v 1.50 2006/10/29 22:32:53 christos Exp $
     $NetBSD: nlist.c,v 1.25 2006/10/16 00:31:47 christos Exp $
     $NetBSD: print.c,v 1.96 2006/10/29 22:32:53 christos Exp $
     $NetBSD: ps.c,v 1.61 2006/10/02 17:54:35 apb Exp $

Running an older version of ps (NetBSD 4.0_beta from around Oct 2006) shows 
more sensible results which actually tally with top.

root(anduin)tmp$ /tmp/ps -ax |head -20
  PID TTY    STAT      TIME COMMAND
    0 ?      DKs    0:00.08 [swapper]
    1 ?      Is     0:00.02 init
    2 ?      DK     0:00.00 [atabus0]
    3 ?      DK     0:00.01 [atabus1]
    4 ?      DK     0:00.01 [usb0]
    5 ?      DK     0:00.00 [usbtask-hc]
    6 ?      DK     0:00.00 [usbtask-dr]
    7 ?      DK     0:00.00 [cryptoret]
    8 ?      DK     0:00.00 [pagedaemon]
    9 ?      DK     0:13.51 [ioflush]
   10 ?      DK     0:04.31 [aiodoned]
   44 ?      DK     0:00.00 [physiod]
   97 ?      I      0:00.26 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -k start
   98 ?      I      0:00.28 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -k start
   99 ?      I      0:00.25 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -k start
  253 ?      Is     0:00.01 /sbin/dhclient
  285 ?      I      0:00.23 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -k start
  315 ?      Ss     0:00.25 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
  474 ?      Ss     0:09.12 /usr/sbin/ntpd

dtyson(anduin)dtyson$ ident /tmp/ps
/tmp/ps:
     $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.16 2006/05/17 17:08:54 christos Exp $
     $NetBSD: keyword.c,v 1.46 2006/03/18 05:33:31 christos Exp $
     $NetBSD: nlist.c,v 1.24 2004/08/22 18:55:44 dsl Exp $
     $NetBSD: print.c,v 1.94 2005/06/27 00:46:04 christos Exp $
     $NetBSD: ps.c,v 1.59 2005/06/26 19:10:49 christos Exp $

Anyone else seeing this?

TIA,
Dave

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