Hi

I'm seeing my memory get used up and now have only 10% free having had 50% free when the box was rebooted.

What I would like to do is find some way to break down the memory usage on my centos 5 server in some detail.

Obviously vmstat, free and ps give me some clues but is there any tools available to provide a better view of whats going on? I've googled around for a few things but not yet spotted anything straight forward.

One more thing on the subject, I noticed yum-updatesd was using the most memory (9.4%) so I service yum-updatesd stop'd it. Is it your opinion that this is bad practice? I assume the daemon is constantly looking for security updates etc?

Many thanks

Kevin

Memory being used up in Linux is totally normal. Try searching these forums as this is asked all the time.