Those who work with Linux servers, but also those who use Linux as a desktop every day knows that it is very useful to have a list of processes running on the machine with a list of resources they are using, to see who is eating all the memory or is using all the CPU, and the ps command is not exactly the most convenient. So we ‘ll see a series of programs that serve to show what’s happening in our system and who is using our resources. The first tool that you can use to get information is the ps command, yes i know, it’s not so handy but you are sure to have it installed in every machine and you can get quickly some information on the system: Get the top 10 CPU consuming process ps aux | sort -n -k 3 | tail -10 Get the top 10 memory consuming process ps aux | sort -n -k 4 | tail -10 Top In most Unix-like operating systems, the top command is a system monitor tool that produces a frequently-updated list of processes. By default, the processes are or...
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