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.
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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>.
Try pressing F or O in top, that should allow you to select the column you want to sort by.
answered Mar 20, 2012 at 17:46
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then hit enter (other keys are possible) to get back to the initial view May 6, 2015 at 22:32
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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
