I've spotted this trait recently on some of my Ubuntu servers (10.04.2) on Amazon EC2 (not noticed this on any physical boxes), and can't quite comprehend how it's getting these figures. They can't be real, because I'm sure computers haven't been around this long. Is this a trait of the nature of EC2/Xen?
ps aux;
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
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root 2382 356012033 0.1 427264 11512 ? Ss 20:56 17179869:11 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root 2678 23695615 0.0 19224 1504 pts/0 S+ 21:02 22212356:09 top
--snip--
top;
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ TIME COMMAND
2382 root 20 0 417m 11m 5464 S 0 0.1 54518724d ? apache2
37 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 54518724d ? xfslogd/0
157 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 54518724d ? kjournald
492 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 54518724d ? flush-8:1
1279 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 54518724d ? flush-8:96
--snip--
w;
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
user pts/0 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. 20:23 32:23 16174544116days 0.03s sshd: user
Any ideas?