Sort processes by CPU Usage
ps aux | sort -rk 3,3 | head -n 10
Short list about top 10 processes, sorted by CPU usage
Sample Output
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 9878 2.4 0.0 944296 7588 ? Ssl Sep03 2010:47 dad
admbd 1282 1.0 0.0 64212 3984 pts/46 S+ 17:01 0:00 ssh frutillar
root 1279 0.4 0.0 64208 3984 pts/77 S+ 17:01 0:00 ssh desacloud522
root 1278 0.4 0.0 64208 3976 pts/129 S+ 17:01 0:00 ssh f1cloud4099
root 1281 0.3 0.0 82488 4524 ? S 17:01 0:00 /usr/sbin/packagekitd
root 10238 0.3 0.0 55048 8992 ? Ssl Sep03 244:21 /opt/CA/SystemEDGE/bin/sysedge -b
root 11321 0.2 0.1 278880 25168 ? Sl Sep03 170:44 splunkd -p 8089 start
root 10086 0.1 0.0 165280 12364 ? Ssl Sep03 102:49 /usr/sbin/adclient
appdyn 514 0.1 0.0 112432 2736 ? S 16:58 0:00 sshd: appdyn@pts/130
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