Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

ps aux --sort -rss | head

By: unixmonkey42657

2012-11-14 17:47:50

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ps returns all running processes which are then sorted by the 4th field in numerical order and the top 10 are sent to STDOUT. Show Sample Output

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ps aux | sort -nk +4 | tail

root · 2009-01-23 17:12:33 298

Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

A nicer display from http://www.web-manual.net/linux-3/find-out-top-10-cpu-memory-consuming-processes/ Show Sample Output

ps axo %mem,pid,euser,cmd | sort -nr | head -n 10

lainme · 2012-10-12 03:27:26 17

Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

Display the top processes sorted by memory usage. This is mostly useful because it's easy to remember and can give me a quick 'top' view of a group of servers when used over pssh. (Though I'd recommend |head -10 to minimize the output). Show Sample Output

top -b -o +%MEM |head -17

dak1n1 · 2016-03-16 22:14:34 12

Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

This command is better for just displaying the memory in KiB. Show Sample Output

ps -eo size,command --sort -size | head

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