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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Print 10 most CPU-intensive processes (wo/ top) Post 302490328 by courteous on Monday 24th of January 2011 02:56:15 PM
Old 01-24-2011
Question Print 10 most CPU-intensive processes (wo/ top)

Code:
ps -eo pid,comm,%cpu

lists all processes (in increasing PID number).

How to get only the top-10 most CPU intensive ones? I know about top: this is BASH exercise.

I tried redirecting above code to cut
Code:
ps -eo pid,comm,%cpu | cut -f2

but ps' output isn't TAB delimited. How can I otherwise use sort, if I can't select the 3rd (%CPU) field?

EDIT:
If using only the 3rd field (%cpu), then this will do:
Code:
ps -eo %cpu | sort -r

But now, how can I retrieve the PIDs? Smilie

Last edited by courteous; 01-24-2011 at 04:17 PM..
 

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CPUSET(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 CPUSET(3)

NAME
cpuset_create, cpuset_destroy, cpuset_zero, cpuset_set, cpuset_clr, cpuset_isset, cpuset_size -- dynamic CPU sets SYNOPSIS
#include <sched.h> cpuset_t * cpuset_create(void); void cpuset_destroy(cpuset_t *set); void cpuset_zero(cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_set(cpuid_t cpu, cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_clr(cpuid_t cpu, cpuset_t *set); int cpuset_isset(cpuid_t cpu, const cpuset_t *set); size_t cpuset_size(const cpuset_t *set); DESCRIPTION
This section describes the functions used to create, set, use and destroy the dynamic CPU sets. This API can be used with the POSIX threads, see pthread(3) and affinity(3). The ID of the primary CPU in the system is 0. FUNCTIONS
cpuset_create() Allocates and initializes a clean CPU-set. Returns the pointer to the CPU-set, or NULL on failure. cpuset_destroy(set) Destroy the CPU-set specified by set. cpuset_zero(set) Makes the CPU-set specified by set clean, that is, memory is initialized to zero bytes, and none of the CPUs set. cpuset_set(cpu, set) Sets the CPU specified by cpu in set. Returns zero on success, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_clr(cpu, set) Clears the CPU specified by cpu in the CPU-set set. Returns zero on success, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_isset(cpu, set) Checks if CPU specified by cpu is set in the CPU-set set. Returns the positive number if set, zero if not set, and -1 if cpu is invalid. cpuset_size(set) Returns the size in bytes of CPU-set specified by set. SEE ALSO
affinity(3), pset(3), sched(3), schedctl(8), kcpuset(9) HISTORY
The dynamic CPU sets appeared in NetBSD 5.0. BSD
November 2, 2011 BSD
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