A gist to kill processes taking more than i% cpu. Useful for closing huge processes really fast and rescuing!

kill-huge-processes.sh

#!/bin/bash

output="$(sudo ps -eo %cpu,pid --sort -%cpu)"
while read -r line; do
  words=($line)
  st=$(echo ${words[0]}'>'5 | bc -l) # Change the number '5' to any number kill the processes taking more than that percent of cpu
  if [ "$st" = "1" ];
  then
          echo ${line}
          exec sudo kill -9 ${words[1]}
  fi
done <<< "$output"