Top processes sorted by CPU usage

Posted in System by matt 810 days ago

This geeklet displays the top 12 processes sorted by their CPU usage. It updates every 30 seconds.

The three columns it shows are given by "command %cpu %mem." You can delete one of those if you don't want it. You can change "head -13" at the end of the command to specify how many processes to show.

Command:

ps -arcwwwxo "command %cpu %mem" | grep -v grep | head -13

Font: Courier
Colour: White
Size: 11

Geeklet files to download

proccessescpu.glet

Comments

maelcum 798 days ago

Why the 'grep -v grep'?

ps -amcwwwxo "command %cpu %mem" | head -13

works nicely for me.

matt 780 days ago

Ah, oops. While I was playing around with different versions of the script I had grep -v grep to remove grep from the list if it appears. As you say, it's completely unnecessary in the script as it is above.

llorban 720 days ago

How did you get the columns to show in such an orderly fashion? Each line on mine is offset

edit: I see now you used courier font

orbited 498 days ago

Thanks for this! However, I use it to monitor a remote server via SSH and execute:

ssh user@whatever.server 'ps -arcwwwxo "command %cpu %mem" | grep -v grep | head -13'

Doing this also means that the ssh daemon peaks at every update. Is there anyway to make the output strip any line with "sshd" before displying the results?

matt 167 days ago

Try adding `| grep -v sshd |` in the middle

orbited 498 days ago

Never mind the above - Google is my friend! :)

ssh user@whatever.server 'ps -arcwwwxo "command %cpu %mem" | grep -v grep | grep -v "^sshd" | head -13'

ryjacs 205 days ago

Is there a way to change the font and still have the columns aligned?

matt 167 days ago

Any "fixed width" font will be fine. That restricts you a bit, but there are a fair few. Menlo is one of my favourites.