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How to get top processes with highest CPU usage

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Want to know what's causing your server to slow down or what's keeping all these resources for itself. This command shows you which processes take it all.

Published by Mark van Eijk on August 12, 2022 · 1 minute read

Run this commando to show top 10 processes that are using the most CPU on your server:

ps -eo cmd,%cpu --sort=-%cpu | head -n 11

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