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top5_cpu_processes

The following commands show you the static cpu usage of your server:

ps -eo user,pcpu,pid,cmd --sort:-pcpu | head -6
Shows more headers and information:
ps aux --sort:-pcpu | head -7
Uses the sort command of –sort
ps -eo user,pcpu,pid,cmd | sort -r -k2 | head -6


It is important to inspect the 'State' column when investigating processes. Below are the flat definitions:

State Definition
D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
R running or runnable (on run queue)
S interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
T stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced
X dead (should never be seen)
Z defunct (“zombie”) process, terminated but not reaped by its parent
< high-priority (not nice to other users)
N low-priority (nice to other users)
L has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO)
s is a session leader
l is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do)
+ is in the foreground process group
top5_cpu_processes.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/23 07:26 by 127.0.0.1

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