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Users report that a database reporting server has become sluggish. Load average is over 12 on a 4-core system, but free memory is plentiful and disk I/O wait is near zero. You need to quickly identify which single process is consuming the most CPU time in real time so you can decide whether to renice or kill it. Which command gives you this information most directly?

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