Which Process Uses The Most CPU Memory in Linux

We can use this command to find out which process uses the highest CPU or Memory in Linux.

# ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%mem |head

# ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%cpu |head

How to Find the Process Which Use Highest CPU

The -o (or –format) option of ps allows us to specify the output format. It shows the processes’ PIDs (pid), PPIDs (pid), the name of the executable file associated with the process (cmd), and the RAM and CPU utilization (%mem and %cpu, respectively).

Additionally, we can use --sort to sort by either %mem or %cpu. By default, the output will be sorted in ascendant form, but we can reverse that order by adding a minus sign in front of the sort criteria.

This is an example of this.

$ ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%cpu |head
   PID   PPID CMD                         %MEM %CPU
  5424      1 /u00/app/19.3.0/grid/bin/os  0.5  2.5
  8081      1 asm_vktm_+ASM1               0.0  1.6
 57124      1 ora_vktm_test21              0.0  1.6
  6623      1 /u00/app/19.3.0/grid/bin/or  0.1  1.3
  6803      1 /u00/app/19.3.0/grid/bin/or  0.3  1.1
 57185      1 ora_dia0_test21              0.1  0.9
  5549      1 /u00/app/19.3.0/grid/bin/oc  0.7  0.8
  3133      1 /u00/app/19.3.0/grid/bin/oh  0.3  0.7
  4005      1 /u00/app/19.3.0/grid/bin/ev  0.0  0.6

Tip:

We can use this command to get the start time of the process.

[root@hostname ~]# ps -eo pid,lstart,cmd

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