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Old 11-26-2008
Process consuming most memory

How can i find the processes that is consuming most memory? I tried TOPAS and SVMON and this didn't gave me the desired result.
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Old 11-26-2008
You could use this for a top ten:
Code:
ps aux| sort -n -k 4,4| head

But it I guess it is inaccurate for AIX as for Linux. Read here why:
Virtual Threads: Understanding memory usage on Linux

Also this should show something similar as the "ps aux":
Code:
svmon -P| grep -p Pid| grep -vE "^$|-----|Pid"| head

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