Re: Linux script to get most expensive processes

[Emile van Sebille]

On 8/4/2015 1:19 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
Under Linux I like to get the most expensive processes. The two most
useful commands are:
     ps -eo pid,user,pcpu,args --sort=-pcpu
and:
     ps -eo pid,user,pcpu,args --sort=-vsize
In my case I am only interested in the seven most expensive processes.
For this I wrote the following script.
<snip>
Is this a reasonable way to do this? Getting the parameter is done
quit simple, but I did not think fancy was necessary here.


My platform shows as linux2 and it worked fine for me when checking for 
that.

Emile




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