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Want to know what's causing your server to slow down or what's keeping all these resources for itself. This command shows you which processes take it all.

 Published by [Mark van Eijk](https://3c80d338-d724-4b4e-9f6d-145bb1e3d26e.rocketeers.cloud/author/mark-van-eijk) on August 12, 2022 · 1 minute read

Run this commando to show top 10 processes that are using the most CPU on your server:

 ```
ps -eo cmd,%cpu --sort=-%cpu | head -n 11

```

To find memory hogs instead, use [top processes by memory](/top-processes-memory); and when a process is holding a port, here's [how to kill it](/kill-process-on-port-linux).

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