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How to get top processes with highest memory usage
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This command shows you which processes are eating all of your server memory.
Published by Mark van Eijk on August 12, 2022 · 1 minute read
Run this command to show the top 10 processes that are using the most memory (RAM) on your server:
ps -eo cmd,%mem --sort=-%mem | head -n 11
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