How to sort top result on virtual memory on Redhat Linux?

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There is an interactive key "M" to sort by memory, which seems to be sorting on resident memory. Is there a way to sort on virtual memory? I happen to be working on Redhat Linux, but the question is not specific to this distribution.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 20 '12 at 17:46

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You get a list of things you can sort by by pressing O. Virtual segment size is option o, so you can get what you want by pressing Oo<Enter>.

answered Mar 20 '12 at 17:46

Lars Kotthoff

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 20 '12 at 17:46

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Try pressing F or O in top, that should allow you to select the column you want to sort by.

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then hit enter (other keys are possible) to get back to the initial view – euphoria83 May 06 '15 at 22:32
Letter [O], `-mem` or `-vsize`, [enter] works on MacOS. – Cees Timmerman Apr 06 '17 at 08:39

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '22 at 07:15

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top -u test -o VIRT

Where -u is the users whose processes you are interested in and -o is the field to filter on, yields something like

answered Oct 05 '22 at 07:15

Lefty G Balogh

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How to sort top result on virtual memory on Redhat Linux?

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