VIRT is not a good measure of actual memory usage because it includes shared pages like file cache and libraries, RES is better.
Shameless plug: I developed a tool that try to compute a better value for memory usage: https://github.com/tatref/linux-mem
VIRT is not a good measure of actual memory usage because it includes shared pages like file cache and libraries, RES is better.
Shameless plug: I developed a tool that try to compute a better value for memory usage: https://github.com/tatref/linux-mem