Linux - See Top memory consumers

1. Simple way to do it is to run following command:

top -o %MEM

2. Output below

[root@ip-x-x-x-x xinetd.d]# top -o %MEM
top - 15:24:13 up  8:02,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.31, 0.25
Tasks: 107 total,   1 running,  66 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.0 us,  0.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 99.3 id,  0.3 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.2 st
KiB Mem :   472500 total,   227492 free,   185308 used,    59700 buff/cache
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 free,        0 used.   274136 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 2275 mysql     20   0 1771192  65264      0 S   0.0 13.8   0:09.53 mysqld
 1384 root      20   0   65632  12376  12000 S   0.0  2.6   0:00.66 systemd-journal
 2833 apache    20   0 1923848  10644    152 S   0.0  2.3   0:05.61 httpd
 2572 apache    20   0 2050504   9232    108 S   0.0  2.0   0:05.78 httpd
 2571 apache    20   0 1921608   9196     72 S   0.3  1.9   0:05.60 httpd
 2573 apache    20   0 1917128   8064     88 S   0.0  1.7   0:05.63 httpd
 2258 root      20   0  398704   7360    896 S   0.0  1.6   0:01.19 httpd 

3. As per above, we can see that mysql process is the top memory eater.