I have Cent OS 5.1 I also have http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/ I have asterisk running . Now when I look at System Information , I see that "Physical Memory" keep increasing and at one point it reaches 96%. Then my sever get hang and then I have to restart it. I have 4 GB RAM. Processors 2 Model Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz CPU Speed 2.53 GHz Cache Size 3.00 MB System Bogomips 10135.71 Kernel Version 2.6.18-53.el5 (SMP) Distro Name CentOS release 5 (Final) Load Averages 0.27 0.35 0.31 What could be the reason ? ps ax shows : PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? Ss 0:00 init [3] 2 ? S 0:00 [migration/0] 3 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] 4 ? S 0:00 [watchdog/0] 5 ? S 0:00 [migration/1] 6 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1] 7 ? S 0:00 [watchdog/1] 8 ? S< 0:00 [events/0] 9 ? S< 0:00 [events/1] 10 ? S< 0:00 [khelper] 11 ? S< 0:00 [kthread] 15 ? R< 0:00 [kblockd/0] 16 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/1] 17 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid] 109 ? S< 0:00 [cqueue/0] 110 ? S< 0:00 [cqueue/1] 113 ? S< 0:00 [khubd] 115 ? S< 0:00 [kseriod] 182 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] 183 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] 184 ? S< 0:00 [kswapd0] 185 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0] 186 ? S< 0:00 [aio/1] 338 ? S< 0:00 [kpsmoused] 370 ? S< 0:00 [ata/0] 371 ? S< 0:00 [ata/1] 372 ? S< 0:00 [ata_aux] 376 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] 377 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] 378 ? D< 0:00 [kjournald] 405 ? S< 0:00 [kauditd] 439 ? S<s 0:00 /sbin/udevd -d 1374 ? S< 0:00 [kmpathd/0] 1375 ? S< 0:00 [kmpathd/1] 1405 ? S< 0:00 [kjournald] 1967 ? Ss 0:00 syslogd -m 0 1970 ? Ss 0:00 klogd -x 2021 ? Ss 0:00 portmap 2046 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.statd 2062 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon --system 2103 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid 2130 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 2219 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/etc/my. 2255 ? Sl 0:01 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --bas 2294 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections 2302 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/client 2320 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2335 ? Ss 0:00 crond 2364 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd 2379 ? Ss 0:00 hald 2380 ? S 0:00 hald-runner 2387 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2388 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2389 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2390 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2391 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2392 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/a 2393 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2394 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2396 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2397 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq 2402 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0 2630 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf 2746 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -L -d -m -S asterisk /usr/sbin/asteri 2747 pts/0 Ssl+ 0:01 /usr/sbin/asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvgc 2801 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -d -m -S ASTupdate /usr/share/astguic 2803 pts/1 Ss+ 0:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_update.pl 2804 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -d -m -S ASTsend /usr/share/astguicli 2805 pts/2 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_manager_sen 2807 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -d -m -S ASTlisten /usr/share/astguic 2808 pts/3 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_manager_lis 2810 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -d -m -S ASTVDauto /usr/share/astguic 2811 pts/4 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_VDauto_dial 2813 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -d -m -S ASTVDremote /usr/share/astgu 2815 pts/5 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_VDremote_ag 2816 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -d -m -S ASTVDadapt /usr/share/astgui 2818 pts/6 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_VDadapt.pl 2819 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/SCREEN -d -m -S ASTfastlog /usr/share/astgui 2820 pts/7 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/FastAGI_log.pl 2828 ? S 0:00 ip_relay 40569 127.0.0.1 4569 9999999 2829 ? S 0:00 ip_relay 41569 127.0.0.1 4569 9999999 2836 pts/7 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/FastAGI_log.pl 2837 pts/7 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/FastAGI_log.pl 2838 pts/7 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/FastAGI_log.pl 2839 pts/7 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/FastAGI_log.pl 2840 pts/7 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/FastAGI_log.pl 2869 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/smartd -q never 2875 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/we 2880 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 2883 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 2884 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 2885 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 2886 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 2887 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 3040 ? S 0:00 crond 3047 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 3072 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 3191 ? S 0:00 crond 3199 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 3212 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 3699 ? S 0:00 crond 3705 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 3718 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 4090 ? S 0:00 crond 4096 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 4112 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 5027 ? S 0:00 crond 5030 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 5049 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 5572 ? S 0:00 crond 5578 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 5592 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 6982 ? S 0:00 crond 6988 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 7012 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 7782 ? S 0:00 crond 7787 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 7810 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 9586 ? S 0:00 crond 9594 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 9623 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 10562 ? S 0:00 crond 10564 ? S 0:00 crond 10568 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_audio_ 10569 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_manager_kil 10597 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t 10988 ? Ss 0:00 sshd: root at pts/8 11045 pts/8 Ss 0:00 -bash 11355 pts/8 R+ 0:00 ps ax I used VicidialNOW CD which comes with integrated CentOS and Asterisk. 1) If I upgrade kernel , wont it break the functionality of any files ? 2) If it wotn break, then how to upgrade ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090327/cf2dce0b/attachment-0004.html>