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Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage
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ps aux --sort -rss | head

unixmonkey42657 · 2012-11-14 17:47:50 9
List docker volumes by container
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docker ps -a --format '{{ .ID }}' | xargs -I {} docker inspect -f '{{ .Name }}{{ printf "\n" }}{{ range .Mounts }}{{ printf "\n\t" }}{{ .Type }} {{ if eq .Type "bind" }}{{ .Source }}{{ end }}{{ .Name }} => {{ .Destination }}{{ end }}{{ printf "\n" }}' {}

expelledboy · 2018-10-31 18:20:26 514
connect to X login screen via vnc

the $15 may change for you depending on your distro, etc...
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x11vnc -display :0 -auth $(ps -ef|awk '/xauth/ {print $15}'|head -1) -forever -bg &

nottings · 2009-02-19 18:55:54 5
ps a process keeping the header info so you know what the columns of numbers mean!

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1828 0.0 0.0 5396 476 ? Ss 2008 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd Show Sample Output
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```
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      1828  0.0  0.0   5396   476 ?        Ss    2008   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
```
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ps auxw |egrep "PID|process_to_look_at"

tsaavik · 2009-02-20 00:17:43 10
Find the processes that are on the runqueue. Processes with a status of

Want to know why your load average is so high? Run this command to see what processes are on the run queue. Runnable processes have a status of "R", and commands waiting on I/O have a status of "D". On some older versions of Linux may require -emo instead of -eo. On Solaris: ps -aefL -o s -o user -o comm | egrep "^O|^R|COMMAND" Show Sample Output
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```
ps -eo stat,pid,user,command | egrep "^STAT|^D|^R"
STAT   PID USER     COMMAND
Rs    9215 oracle   oracleORA1 (LOCAL=NO)
Rs   12090 oracle   oracleORA1 (LOCAL=NO)
Rs   22965 oracle   ora_lmd0_ORA1
R+   26044 root     ps -eo stat,pid,user,command
Rs   29344 oracle   oracleORA1 (LOCAL=NO)
Rs   29352 oracle   oracleORA1 (LOCAL=NO)
```
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ps -eo stat,pid,user,command | egrep "^STAT|^D|^R"

jyoder · 2009-02-20 19:00:17 7
ensure your ssh tunnel will always be up (add in crontab)

I find it ugly & sexy at the same time isn't it ?
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[[ $(COLUMNS=200 ps faux | awk '/grep/ {next} /ssh -N -R 4444/ {i++} END {print i}') ]] || nohup ssh -N -R 4444:localhost:22 user@relay &

j0rn · 2009-03-31 09:39:59 10
Apache memory usage
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ps auxf | grep httpd | grep -v grep | grep -v defunct | awk '{sum=sum+$6}; END {print sum/1024}'

empulse · 2009-04-29 17:43:52 32

Format ps command output

ps command gives the possibility to display information with custom formatting with the -o options followed by the format specifier list. Show Sample Output

ps ax -o "%p %U %u %x %c %n"

servermanaged · 2009-07-14 17:21:59 9

How much RAM is Apache using?

Display the amount of memory used by all the httpd processes. Great in case you are being Slashdoted!
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ps -o rss -C httpd | tail -n +2 | (sed 's/^/x+=/'; echo x) | bc

ricardoarguello · 2009-07-31 15:15:08 9
Who invoked me? / Get parent command

Get the name of the parent command. This might be helpful, if you need to react on that information. E. g. a script called directly via ssh has got sshd as parent, manually invoked the parent process will probably be bash
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ps -o comm= -p $(ps -o ppid= -p $$)

olorin · 2009-08-03 07:41:21 5

Output Detailed Process Tree for any User

An easy function to get a process tree listing (very detailed) for all the processes of any gived user. This function is also in my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Show Sample Output

psu(){ command ps -Hcl -F S f -u ${1:-$USER}; }

AskApache · 2009-11-13 06:10:33 4

count and number lines of output, useful for counting number of matches

Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Show Sample Output

ps aux | grep [a]pache2 | nl

donnoman · 2009-12-17 18:48:09 4

List processes sorted by CPU usage
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ps -ef --sort=-%cpu

aguslr · 2011-10-14 21:57:51 3
Print current running shell, PID

works as well as echo $0, but also prints process id, which pts you're using. echo $SHELL doesn't always get updated when changing shells, so this is a better solution than that. Just one more variation on a theme. Show Sample Output
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```
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
28966 pts/9    00:00:00 csh
```
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ps -p $$

robinsonaarond · 2012-02-09 17:27:45 6
Tells the shell you are using
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ps -p $$

maverick · 2013-10-17 10:45:22 9
Show memory usage of all docker / lxc containers
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for line in `docker ps | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v CONTAINER`; do docker ps | grep $line | awk '{printf $NF" "}' && echo $(( `cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/docker/$line*/memory.usage_in_bytes` / 1024 / 1024 ))MB ; done

sammcj · 2014-09-24 04:37:01 10
get ip of all running docker containers

pretty self explanitory
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docker inspect --format "{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}" $(docker ps -q)

dckr · 2015-11-20 01:55:53 10
total percentage of memory use for all processes with a given name

This command will add up RAM usage of all processes whose name contains "java" and output the sum of percentages in HRF. Also, unlike the original #15430, it wont fail on processes with a usage of >9.9%. Pleases note that this command wont work reliably in use cases where a significant portion of processes involved are using less than 0.1% of RAM, because they will be counted as "0", even though a great number of them could add up to significant amounts. Show Sample Output
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```
43.5 % of RAM
```
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ps -eo pmem,comm | grep java | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum " % of RAM"}'

bugmenot · 2016-02-10 09:00:56 16
Pulls total current memory usage, including SWAP being used, by all active processes.
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ps aux | awk '{sum+=$6} END {print sum/1024}'

darkon1365 · 2009-02-16 12:10:00 128
Current running process ordered by %CPU

Useful to detect which process is causing system loads. It shows process PID so as we can take further actions. Show Sample Output
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```
0.8 25686 gnome-terminal
 1.3 23966 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
35.9  6638 /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.6/firefox
```
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ps -eo pcpu,pid,args | sort -n

unixmonkey1055 · 2009-02-16 14:23:03 140
Kill all processes belonging to a user

This is a 'killall' command equivalent where it is not available. Prior to executing it, set the environment variable USERNAME to the username, whose processes you want to kill or replace the username with the $USERNAME on the command above. Side effect: If any processes from other users, are running with a parameter of $USERNAME, they will be killed as well (assuming you are running this as root user) [-9] in square brackets at the end of the command is optional and strongly suggested to be your last resort. I do not like to use it as the killed process leaves a lot of mess behind.
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ps -ef | grep $USERNAME | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill [-9]

TheNomad · 2009-02-17 20:35:35 9
Check ps output to see if file is running, if not start it

This comes in handy if you have daemons/programs that have potential issues and stop/disappear, etc., can be run in cron to ensure that a program remains up no matter what. Be advised though, if a program did core out, you'd likely want to know why (gdb) so use with caution on production machines.
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ps -C thisdaemon || { thisdaemon & }

sil · 2009-02-18 14:12:17 6
Show the 20 most CPU/Memory hungry processes

This command will show the 20 processes using the most CPU time (hungriest at the bottom). You can see the 20 most memory intensive processes (hungriest at the bottom) by running: ps aux | sort +3n | tail -20 Or, run both: echo "CPU:" && ps aux | sort +2n | tail -20 && echo "Memory:" && ps aux | sort +3n | tail -20
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ps aux | sort +2n | tail -20

dopeman · 2009-03-31 12:03:34 10
Return threads count of a process

Source: http://superuser.com/questions/49408/how-do-i-monitor-or-view-the-thread-count-of-a-certain-process-on-aix Show Sample Output
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```
THCNT
   2
```
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ps -o thcount -p <process id>

lukasz · 2009-12-04 14:39:53 4
Pull Total Memory Usage In Virtual Environment

This command basically adds up all of the individual instances processes and gives you a grand total for used memory in that instance alone.
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ps axo rss,comm | awk '{sum+=$1; print $1/1024, "MB - ", $2} END {print "\nTotal RAM Used: ", sum/1024, "MB\n"}'

johnss · 2010-02-18 12:05:45 7
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Lists the size of certain file in every 10 seconds

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back ssh from firewalled hosts

host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

'hpc' in the box - starts a maximum of n compute commands modulo n controlled in parallel

the block of the loop is useful whenever you have huge junks of similar jobs, e.g., convert high res images to thumbnails, and make usage out of all the SMP power on your compute box without flooding the system. note: c is used as counter and the random sleep $ r=`echo $RANDOM%5 |bc`; echo "sleep $r"; sleep $r is just used as a dummy command.

Convert df command to posix; uber GREPable

It is a pain grep-ing/sed-ing/awk-ing plain old df. POSIX it!

This will take the last two commands from bash_history and open your editor with the commands on separated lines

convert ascii string to hex

Even adds a newline.

cat a file backwards

Or "tail -r" on Solaris.

Mysql extended status

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