What is a dirty buffer?
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What is a dirty buffer?
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A buffer that is currently not in use, and contains data that has been committed but not written back to the disk by the database writer process is called a dirty buffer. If a user process finds a dirty buffer in the least recently used (LRU) list, it moves the dirty buffer to the write list and continues searching for more dirty buffers.
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