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PS(1)                   FreeBSD General Commands Manual                  
PS(1)

NAME
     ps - process status

SYNOPSIS
     ps [-aCcefhjlmrSTuvwxZ] [-M core] [-N system] [-O fmt] [-o fmt] [-p 
pid]
        [-t tty] [-U username[,username...]]
     ps [-L]

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KEYWORDS
     The following is a complete list of the available keywords and their
     meanings.  Several of them have aliases (keywords which are synonyms).

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     re         core residency time (in seconds; 127 = infinity)

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     sl         sleep time (in seconds; 127 = infinity)

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NetBSD fixed it, OpenBSD inherited the fix leaving only FreeBSD broken. 
 What is it?  It's the part about 127 = infinity which only FreeBSD 
get's wrong.  But today I have a system running -CURRENT and Internet 
CVS so I went from this:

cartman# ps avx
  PID STAT      TIME  SL  RE PAGEIN   VSZ  RSS   LIM TSIZ %CPU %MEM COMMAND
55925 S      0:00.56   0 936      0  1728 1400     -  880  0.0  1.3 _su 
(csh)
55921 Is     0:00.33 938 944     22  1672 1296     -  880  0.0  1.2 
-tcsh (tcsh)
  361 Is     0:00.34 1277 48063     25  8888  520     -  632  0.0  0.5 
sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
    1 ILs    0:01.08 603 49893     23   808  256     -  448  0.0  0.2 
/sbin/init --
57596 R+     0:00.01   0   0      0   736  328     -  440  0.0  0.3 ps avx
55915 I      0:00.34 943 959      5 24648 2288     -  144  0.0  2.1 
sshd: kstailey [priv] (sshd)
55920 S      0:02.97   0 944      0 24576 2328     -  144  0.0  2.1 
sshd: kstailey@ttyp0 (sshd)
  352 Is     0:04.60 943 45724     33 13600  976     -  144  0.0  0.9 
/usr/sbin/sshd
  398 Is     0:02.20  58 48402    142  3656  296     -   40  0.0  0.3 
/usr/sbin/cron
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to this:

cartman# ps vax
  PID STAT      TIME  SL  RE PAGEIN   VSZ  RSS   LIM TSIZ %CPU %MEM COMMAND
55925 S      0:00.58   0 127      0  1728 1400     -  880  0.0  1.3 _su 
(csh)
55921 Is     0:00.33 127 127     22  1672 1296     -  880  0.0  1.2 
-tcsh (tcsh)
  361 Is     0:00.34 127 127     25  8888  520     -  632  0.0  0.5 
sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
    1 ILs    0:01.08 127 127     23   808  256     -  448  0.0  0.2 
/sbin/init --
57604 R+     0:00.01   0   0      0   736  328     -  440  0.0  0.3 ps vax
55915 I      0:00.34 127 127      5 24648 2288     -  144  0.0  2.1 
sshd: kstailey [priv] (sshd)
55920 S      0:03.04   0 127      0 24576 2328     -  144  0.0  2.1 
sshd: kstailey@ttyp0 (sshd)
  352 Is     0:04.60 127 127     33 13600  976     -  144  0.0  0.9 
/usr/sbin/sshd
  398 Is     0:02.20  28 127    142  3656  296     -   40  0.0  0.3 
/usr/sbin/cron
55924 I      0:00.21 127 127      2 18328 1544     -   16  0.0  1.4 su

with this:

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