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 dirty_background_ratio
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-Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which
-the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out dirty data.
+Contains, as a percentage of the dirtyable system memory (free pages + mapped
+pages + file cache, not including locked pages and HugePages), the number of
+pages at which the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out
+dirty data.
 
 dirty_ratio
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-Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which
-a process which is generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty
-data.
+Contains, as a percentage of the dirtyable system memory (free pages + mapped
+pages + file cache, not including locked pages and HugePages), the number of
+pages at which a process which is generating disk writes will itself start
+writing out dirty data.
 
 dirty_writeback_centisecs
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