Monitoring Health Metrics Regarding Each Process on Linux

ps axo pid,ppid,rss,vsz,nlwp,cmd --sort=-rss,-vsz

Output columns:

• pid - Process ID
• ppid - Parent Process ID
• rss - Resident Set Size - physical memory
• vsz - Virtual Set Size - virtual memory
• nlwp - Number of Light Weight Processes - thread count
• cmd - Command
• --sort
• specify sorting order. Sorting syntax is [+|-]key[,[+|-]key[,...]]
• Choose a multi-letter key from the STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS section.
• The "+" is optional since default direction is increasing numerical or lexicographic order.