How to find top 10 memory and cpu usage processes

by admin March 10, 2020 at 11:06 am

Linux

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Sometimes server might be responding slowly and need to find which process is consuming high cpu and memory to fix it. Below commands will helpful to find the top 10 cpu and memory usage processes.

Top 10 CPU Usage processes :

$ ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%cpu --sort=-%cpu | head -10
  PID  PPID CMD                         %CPU
15422  5721 /opt/google/chrome/chrome - 21.7
 8610  5721 /opt/google/chrome/chrome - 15.6
29034  5721 /opt/google/chrome/chrome -  7.2
 4347  4047 /usr/bin/gnome-shell         6.6
 8620  5721 /opt/google/chrome/chrome -  6.5
 6837 18023 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox   5.2
29370 29177 /usr/lib/slack/slack --type  5.1
18023     1 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox   4.6
 5459 18023 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox   3.3

Top 10 Memory Usage processes :


[ramesh@oc6204431222 ~]$ ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem --sort=-%mem | head -10
  PID  PPID CMD                         %MEM
18023     1 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox   6.7
 2336  2263 /usr/bin/X :0 -background n  6.5
 4347  4047 /usr/bin/gnome-shell         5.8
15422  5721 /opt/google/chrome/chrome -  5.4
 5593 18023 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox   4.7
29370 29177 /usr/lib/slack/slack --type  4.0
18132 18023 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox   3.9
29034  5721 /opt/google/chrome/chrome -  3.7
 5699  4347 /opt/google/chrome/chrome    3.1