Linux – Top Ten Processes with High Memory Usage

The following contains the Linux one liner to identify the Top Ten Processes with high memory usage –#

#ps aux | sort -nk +4 | tail

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#ps -eo rss,vsz,pid,cputime,cmd --width 100 --sort rss,vsz | tail --lines 10

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#ps aux --sort -rss | head

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