content/cli/Show top 50 running processes ordered by highest memory-cpu usage refreshing every 1s Using watch.md

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title: Show top 50 running processes ordered by highest memory-cpu usage refreshing every 1s Using watch date: 2019-12-04 13:51:00 categories: [cli] tags: [ps, watch,head]

authors: sedlav

watch -n1 "ps aux --sort=-%mem,-%cpu | head -n 50

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