Re: [PATCH 1/7] memcg: update cgroup memory document

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Sat Jul 07 2012 - 09:45:33 EST


> +dirty - # of bytes that are waiting to get written back to the disk.
> +writeback - # of bytes that are actively being written back to the disk.

This should be a bit more clear to the user:

dirty - # of bytes of file cache that are not in sync with the disk copy
writeback - # of bytes of file cache that are queued for syncing to disk

Thanks,
Fengguang

> inactive_anon - # of bytes of anonymous memory and swap cache memory on
> LRU list.
> active_anon - # of bytes of anonymous and swap cache memory on active

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