LinuxStories: Find Out Top Processes By Memory Usage In Linux

[glaukos 4]

Use the following script to find out top processed sorted by memory usage, in megabytes (MB)

#!/bin/bash
ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2]++; proc_list[$2 "," 1] += $1; } \
END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", \
proc_list[proc "," 1],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10 | sort -rn \
| awk '{$1/=1024;printf "%.0fMB\t",$1}{print $2}'

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[NickTheGreek 160]

 

μια χαρά, και με αυτά τα aliases κανω δουλειά πάντως

	## get top process eating memory
alias psmem='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4'
alias psmem10='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10'
	## get top process eating cpu ##
alias pscpu='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3'
alias pscpu10='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3 | head -10'