Take the 2-minute tour ×  So I look at avaliable to me servers
load  enter image description here  and see that some other user
has created some really ram intensive app that kills my server
hosting abileties. I wonder what is bash command to get top 5
most ram using applications n my server. How would such command
look like?  share|improve this question add comment  2 Answers
up vote 7 down vote accepted  You can use ps:  ps axo
pid,args,pmem,rss,vsz --sort -pmem,-rss,-vsz | head -n 5
share|improve this answer add comment  Run top. Press O to
change the sort order, and Q for RESident memory.  share|improve
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