How To Find Top Processes By Memory and CPU in Linux

Top Processes Sorted By Memory/CPU Usage

During server health checkup sometimes we try to check the expensive processes running on Linux machine. It is very easy in windows but for Linux you need to type command in order to achieve the same.

Below is the command which we can use. It will not show you the full list. However if you want to see the full list you can remove |head to get full list.

Command:

    @instance-1:~$ ps -eo user,pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%mem |head 

Output:

Thank You!

Vimal