Maybe you can take use of this

[The Beatles]

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#!/bin/bash
lines=`tput lines`
((lines-=2))
ps u -e | sort -rnk 4 | head -$lines

I put that script in /usr/local/bin/proc-by-mem.sh
Quite useful to find out what is consuming most memory. Of course, graphical task viewers like KDE's often do this for you too. This will adjust itself to your terminal size, too.