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Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion?

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On 12/5/2024 2:08 PM, Andrew wrote:
> To help another user on another thread I checked my settings to show him
> how an inexpensive phone can have enough horsepower to be just fine, I 
> happened to go into my settings & saw a Samsung setting for "RAM Plus".
> Settings > Battery & device care > Memory > RAM Plus = on/off
> 
> When I looked at the RAM Plus in my Samsung Galaxy A32-5G, it showed:
> (_) 2GB
> (o) 4GB
> 
> Looking up what the heck Samsung RAM Plus even is, I find this cite: 
> <https://www.simplymac.com/android/what-is-samsung-ram-plus-is-it-worth-it>
> "Samsung RAM Plus is a feature found in certain Samsung smartphones 
>   that creates virtual RAM by using a portion of the device's internal 
>   storage to provide extra temporary memory when the actual RAM is 
>   running low."
> 
> I didn't even realize this existed until now (or maybe I knew at one time
> and forgot) but what I'm asking here is what is your experience with it?

I think it depends on your usage. If you always have many apps running 
at the same time, maybe it can give slight improvement in performance.

I have disabled it and never noticed any difference, probably because I 
have 12GB of RAM on my A55.

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What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-05 06:08 +0000
  Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-05 10:26 +0000
    Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-12-05 22:57 +0100
  Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? "Edward.C" <ec@spam.invalid> - 2024-12-06 13:40 +0800
  Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? "Edward.C" <ec@spam.invalid> - 2024-12-06 15:04 +0800
    Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-06 08:05 +0000
      Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-12-06 09:55 +0100
      Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-06 11:51 +0000
        Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-06 14:02 +0100
          Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-06 21:21 +0000
        Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-12-07 13:51 +0100
          Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-07 13:14 +0000
            Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-07 14:05 +0000
              Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-07 16:18 +0000
                Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-12-09 00:50 +0100
            Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-12-09 00:46 +0100
    Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion? Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2024-12-06 11:52 +0000

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