I strongly suspect that the MIPS floating point emulation has some issues (the numbers printed by top makes no sense, and sometimes it hangs because the computed time to sleep makes no sense either). Do we have some floating point test suite around (or something available from pkgsrc) ? benchmarks/paranoia not a full test suite, but you should definitely run it.
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