On 24/01/2020 14:01, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:27:03 +0000
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>> If
>> you write to disk it goes into cache. Only if it runs out of cache will
>> it actually write to the disk.
>
>  I'm pretty sure you'll find that it usually gets written to disk
> before that, only when a dirty block has been written out can it be reused
> so flushing dirty blocks is an important activity.
>
I was trying to keep it simple.

But if you examine the cache with top you will see its always
full...which either means top is reporting 'reserved for cache' or it is
actually full.

Anywsy the point I was trying to make was to someone who didn't know the
difference between cache and swap.



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