ah, nearly 2g of binary&libraries, yep that figures, ty. On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170905/96e8c925/attachment-0001.html>