Find top 10 processes with wmic command

Question

I know I can do 'wmic process list brief' to display a list of processes. Is there a way to view only the top 10 processes using the most memory?

Answer 1

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

(for /F "skip=1 tokens=1,2" %%a in ('wmic process get name^,workingsetsize') do (
   set "size=         %%b"
   echo !size:~-10!    %%a
)) > wmic.txt
set i=0
for /F "skip=1 delims=" %%a in ('sort /R wmic.txt') do (
   echo %%a
   set /A i+=1
   if !i! equ 10 goto :end
)
:end
del wmic.txt

Output example:

  96931840    iexplore.exe
  82161664    explorer.exe
  42319872    svchost.exe
  33656832    svchost.exe
  31469568    dwm.exe
  26943488    iexplore.exe
  25690112    SearchIndexer.exe
  18550784    svchost.exe
  17002496    taskhostex.exe
  16343040    svchost.exe