Just how large is that faults field anyhow?

#vmstat
 procs    memory      page                       disks   faults      cpu
 r b w    avm    fre  flt  re  pi   po   fr   sr f0 s0   in   sy  cs us 
sy id
 0 0 0  47720   7016    2   0   0    0    0    0  0  0 
18446744073709550553   18   5  0  1 99
#uname -v
NetBSD 3.0 (2006/07/22 DJB-router Multia/alpha) #8: Thu Jul 27 00:52:57 
CDT 2006  root@anchovy:/usr/NetBSD_src/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/DJB
#

18,446,744,073,709,550,553 faults?

I guess that's why you should reboot occasionally:)  Yes, it's still 
adding to that number.

Must have had some kind of memory error on the Multia.  Oh well.  
Nothing that a sledgehammer won't fix:)

Crunch, crunch.....

djb