ps auxf oddity

[Mark K <mkroska@readynetgo.com>]

This morning when I came in, one of the servers was quite unresponsive.
SSH did not want to log me in, (probably because of a DNS failure), when
going to the main console, tried doing a "ps auxf" and got the following:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         2  0.0  0.0     0     0  ?  SW  09:37   0:00 (\005\005)
bin        265  0.0  0.1  1196   396  ?  S   09:38   0:00 portmap 
daemon     345  0.0  0.1  1128   484  ?  S   09:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/atd 
Segmentation fault

I've never seen a "(\005\005)" before, and normally, kflushd is my PID 2.
Any ideas as to what this might be?  I'm thinking some kernel feature is
making this thing corrupt.  Any input would be great!

Thanks in advance,
Mark

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