Command to get the top processes which are taking most of the memory

[hemant dubey_1]

Hi,

I need command by which i can get the top processes which are eating most of the memory as im my server memory utilization is 100% sometimes.

[Peter Leddy_1]

Hi,

Try top, it will show you the current processes and their utilisation.

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Regards,

Peter

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

http://hpuxconsulting.com/mem.mon

It's a newly written memory leak detctor, well documented, works on hpux, solaris and linux.

I would consider it late beta at this time.

SEP

[Marcin O.]

Hi

use top, if you have MWA, you can use glance (great tool).

Regards
Marcin

[hemant dubey_1]

i have tried with glance and top but these commands are giving output that is showing process which are taking maximum processor time not memory wise.

[Wim Rombauts]

With glance (I use the graphical "gpm" command), you can configure the sorting column.
Select "Reports", "Process List"
In the new window, select "Configure", "Sort Fileds". Click the "Res Mem" column and then click on the left side of the leftmost column.
Do the same for "Virtual Memory".

Keep in mid that some processes use shared memory, and than 10 processes listing each 10GB memory can be using a total of 10GB or a total of 100GB ...

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

UNIX95= ps -e -o ruser,pid,vsz=Kbytes|sort -nrk3

Regards,
Robert-Jan