On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:41:28 +0000
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 24/01/2020 14:01, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:27:03 +0000

> 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.

 When a dirty page is flushed to disc it stays in the cache, just
marked clean so it can be reused if needs be, if it's something like a page
out of a database then it will likely get written to again before it gets
reused for something else.

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

 I just like accuracy :)

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