sort "top" output and then save to file

Tim P. Starrin Timothy.P.Starrin at nasa.gov
Tue Apr 29 15:35:40 UTC 2008


To sort in reverse order...

% ps -eo pid,size,vsize,cmd --sort -vsize

Tim P. Starrin wrote:
> % ps -eo pid,size,vsize,cmd --sort vsize
>
> Genti Hila wrote:
>> I tried this and works ok but I need to see the memory size in kb or 
>> Mb and
>> not sort simply by percentage.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jai Rangi <jrangi at automotive.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Something like this,
>>> % ps aux | sort -nr -k +4
>>>
>>>
>>> -Jai Rangi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Subject: RE: sort "top" output and then save to file
>>>
>>> Use ps command.  Get the columns and sort you want and redirect the
>>> output - Assumming you want a snapshot.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Subject: sort "top" output and then save to file
>>>
>>> I am trying to save all the processes into a file by using top command:
>>>
>>> top -cSb n 1 > proc.txt
>>>
>>> It works fine but I want to sort it descending by the amount of memory
>>> each proccess takes (descending).
>>>
>>> I know how to do that interactively but how can i do when I run it as a
>>> batch and save the output to a file.
>>>
>>> I need to see some program that I think has some memory leaking 
>>> problem.
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