Commands to get top memory usage processes in linux

$ ps aux --sort=-%mem | awk 'NR<=10{print $0}'
This will show you top 10 process that using the most memory


$ ps -eo pmem,pcpu,vsize,pid,cmd | sort -k 1 -nr | head -5
This will give the top 5 processes by memory usage.



$ ps axu | awk '{print $2, $3, $4, $11}' | head -1 && ps axu | awk '{print $2, $3, $4, $11}' | sort -k3 -nr |head -5



$ cat /proc/meminfo

This will give memory usage information



$ ps auxwww|grep -i 'server' 
This should return all process which has server in them. Otherwise, server may have already stopped