## get top process eating memory alias psmem='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4' ## get top process eating cpu ## alias pscpu='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3' ps -o pid,cmd,pmem,vsz,size,rss print pid and cmd-line # get top process eating memory alias psmem10='ps -e -orss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1n| tail -10' -e all processes -o STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS rss resident set size /proc/ cd /proc/1084 cat cmdline cat environ ls -l cwd Killing: killall -9