> +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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