https://www.bradcypert.com/tags/linux/ Recent content in Linux on BradCypert.com Hugo en-us Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:36:37 -0500 https://www.bradcypert.com/list-processes-by-memory-usage-in-linux/ Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bradcypert.com/list-processes-by-memory-usage-in-linux/ <p>I recently was running into an issue where a Systemd service was crashing due to an out of memory error. I was pretty sure that my project wasn’t taking up <strong>too</strong> much memory, but I wasn’t certain what was. Thankfully, with the use of some command-line wizardry, I was able to find out that Hyper (the terminal app) was using almost 3gb of memory!</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>ps -e -o pid,vsz,comm<span style="color:#ff79c6">=</span> | sort -r -n -k <span style="color:#bd93f9">2</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>We have two commands here, each with their own <code>man</code> page should you want to learn more. The first command is <code>ps</code> which displays information about all of your running processes.</p>