Why is VIRT showing high in top output ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System is showing high in VIRT even %CPU and %Mem is not much utilized.
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                                          
 7284 wwwspool  18   0 4348m 409m  18m S  3.3  4.6 333:05.57 java                                                                                             

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • All

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