Virt includes the sizes of all binaries, libraries, memory, and swap.

On Sep 5, 2017 6:28 PM, "gregrwm" <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote:

> what does VIRT 3736704 firefox mean?  with only 63688 swap used, and only
> 2g ram available, where exactly would firefox have that 3.7g?  does that
> perchance include nearly 2g of memory "requested but not allocated" or
> something like that?
>
> top - 17:52:35 up 10:29,  5 users,  load average: 0.21, 0.18, 0.23
>> Tasks: 164 total,   1 running, 163 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> %Cpu0  :  3.3 us,  0.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.3 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
>> 0.0 st
>> %Cpu1  :  3.7 us,  0.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
>> 0.0 st
>> KiB Mem :  2003420 total,   119212 free,  1431256 used,   452952
>> buff/cache
>> KiB Swap:  1953120 total,  1889432 free,    63688 used.   320280 avail
>> Mem
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+
>> COMMAND
>>  1339 g         20   0 3736704 1.379g 116880 S   6.0 72.2  95:50.84
>> firefox
>>   863 root      20   0  306200  79544  68220 S   0.3  4.0   4:31.55 Xorg
>>  1521 g          9 -11  488056   6768   4472 S   0.3  0.3   3:27.73
>> pulseaudio
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