make new color for dirty / writeback cache #1491
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Right now all disk caches are in same color (yellowish on my system). In Windows Task manager dirty buffers are using different color from regular disk cache because it is indeed different: while regular disk cache can be dropped on spot when RAM is needed, dirty buffers first need to be written to disk before RAM can be used.
It would also nicely show how effectively is RAM used to speed up disk writes or visualize the current OS settings. Dirty buffers can be loaded from /proc/meminfo:
They are subset of Cached memory, but since their nature is different, they should have slightly different color in memory overview bar.
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