List Top Processes sorted by RAM or CPU Usage in Linux

The following command will show the list of top processes ordered by RAM and CPU use in descendant form (remove the pipeline and head if you want to see the full list):

# ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%mem | head
Sample Output
PID  	PPID 	CMD                      	%MEM 	%CPU
2591	2113 	/usr/lib/firefox/firefox    7.3 	43.5
2549   2520 	/usr/lib/virtualbox/Virtual 3.4  	8.2
2288       1 	/home/gacanepa/.dropbox-dis	1.4	0.3
1889   1543	c:\TeamViewer\TeamViewer.ex	1.0	0.2
2113	1801	/usr/bin/cinnamon		0.9	3.5
2254	2252	python /usr/bin/linuxmint/m	0.3	0.0
2245	1801	nautilus -n			0.3	0.1
1645	1595	/usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -aut	0.3	2.5

Find Largest Directories in Linux

If you want to display the biggest directories in the current working directory, run:

[root@vpsforums var]# du -a | sort -n -r | head -n 5
Sample Output
[root@vpsforums var]# du -a | sort -n -r | head -n 5
456948 .
259528 ./lib
213612 ./lib/mysql
107080 ./cache
107040 ./cache/yum

Find Largest File in a folder

# find /home/ -type f -exec du -Sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 5
OR
# find /home/ -type f -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 5

Sample Output
[root@vpsforums var]# find /var -type f -exec du -Sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 5
77M /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1
48M /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile1
48M /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0
36M /var/lib/rpm/Packages
31M /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/updates/gen/primary_db.sqlite

List Number of open connections per ip

# netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
Sample Output
[root@vpsforums var]# find /var -type f -exec du -Sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 5
 1 103.9.77.19
 1 104.106.253.241
 2 104.245.164.30
 2 104.27.143.145
 2 108.162.219.149 
 3 24.199.191.90
 3 31.7.58.170
 4 104.113.68.225
 4 104.31.17.3
 4 121.18.238.125
 5 104.16.228.14
 5 104.27.216.28
 5 188.210.191.25
 5 216.58.193.163
 5 216.58.193.174
 6 104.16.227.14
 7 34.204.96.230
 7 59.45.175.88
 8 104.20.72.110
 9 52.27.117.94
 10 208.77.17.137
 11 104.27.212.30
 11 136.243.206.150
 11 78.129.196.136
 12 174.35.56.108
 19 104.20.71.110
 99 202.151.15.226
 103 209.197.3.84

List processes by disk I/O usage

We need iotop for this purpose.

Install IOTOP

wget http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/files/iotop-0.5.tar.gz
tar zxfv iotop-0.5.tar.gz
cd iotop-0.5
python setup.py install
cd ../
rm -rfv iotop-0.5*

# iotop
Sample Output

In IOTop, the processes with most usage are shown to the top of the list.

Find out what program/process is listening on port/ip address

#  netstat -nap | grep LISTEN

Sample Output

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 202479/sshd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 322015/master
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:6379 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2280/redis-server 1
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3350 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 53405/xrdp-sesman
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 517460/sendmail
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4190 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 121190/dovecot
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 340177/mysqld
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 592436/rpcbind
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8085 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 219820/./worldserve
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:587 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 365217/master
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:587 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1046398/sendmail: M
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:52951 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 71834/(squid-1)
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 534376/apache2
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 53398/cupsd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10013 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 609144/mudhealthd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8282 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1004877/tinyproxy
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 156656/vsftpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:48221 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 50542/apache2
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 416871/apache2
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9977 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 946021/sshd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.2:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 130588/named

In the above output, if take the first line, it tell us that a process named SSHD with PID 202479 is listening on port 22, tcp protocol, on all available system ip addresses

List processes using swap

#  for file in /proc/*/status ; do awk '/VmSwap|Name/{printf $2 " " $3}END{ print ""}' $file; done | sort -k 2 -n -r

Sample Output

mysqld 593432 kB
worldserver 528624 kB
mudflow 450760 kB
mongod 448096 kB
mysqld 447140 kB
java 358780 kB
systemd 301720 kB
mysqld 273256 kB
java 252704 kB
node 225476 kB
mysqld 138144 kB
python 129964 kB
mongod 120812 kB
mysqld 116868 kB
mysqld 116644 kB
mysqld 104856 kB
mysqld 104388 kB
mysqld 100088 kB
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