HOW TO FIND OUT TOP5 MEMORY CONSUMING PROCESSES

[Amardeep Gundala]

Hi,

 

I want find out top 5 process which are memory consuming in linux and kill that process

 

regards

amaradeep

 

[Jay Maheshkar]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Amardeep Gundala <amar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

 

I want find out top 5 process which are memory consuming in linux and kill that process

Hi Amardeep

you can use ps command to find out process, pid and cpu usage by it

i have tried below command and its working for me

Just follow below steps

 

step - 1 use 'ps' command

root@example[Desktop]# ps axo pcpu,comm,pid | sort -nr | head -n 5
31.1 opera                  6488
 5.6 Xorg                     4213
 3.7 vlc                        6525
2.1 operapluginwrap 6497
0.1 gnome-terminal   5469
root@example[Desktop]# 

Step - 2 use 'kill' command

here i am killing process of vlc 

so 

kill pidofprocess

root@example[Desktop]# kill 6525
root@example[Desktop]#

Moreover if you want to see real time process and its information 

you can also 'top' command

Hope so it will help you...

 

 

 

regards

amaradeep

 

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[ElectroMech :- Vibrant GNU/Linux User Group]

Hi Mr. Jay,

>
> > I want find out top 5 process which are memory consuming in linux and kill
> > that process
>

> *root@example[Desktop]# ps axo pcpu,comm,pid | sort -nr | head -n 5

Small correction.

The question is for memory and the command given by you display the
process - cpu load.
root@example[Desktop]# ps axo %mem,comm,pid | sort -nr | head -n 5

Hope above things work fine.

>
> Jay Maheshkar

Thanks and Regards,

Nilesh J. Vaghela
Electromech Info

[Amardeep Gundala]

Hi All,

 

thanks all your support

 

regards

amaradeep