Android – Show top processes using adb

To show top 5 processes by cpu

$ adb shell top -m 5 -s cpu

Sample outcome

User 16%, System 3%, IOW 0%, IRQ 0%
User 294 + Nice 0 + Sys 63 + Idle 1439 + IOW 8 + IRQ 0 + SIRQ 0 = 1804

  PID PR CPU% S  #THR     VSS     RSS PCY UID      Name
31732  0  16% S    15 1808356K 650552K  fg u0_a190  com.foo.bar
  529  0   1% S    20 132188K   9312K  fg media    /system/bin/mediaserver
 1411  0   1% S   152 2448952K 158664K  fg system   system_server
  427  0   1% S    16 215528K  11708K  fg system   /system/bin/surfaceflinger
31959  5   0% R     1   3996K   1296K  fg shell    top

To show top 5 processes by mem

$ adb shell top -m 5 -s rss