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

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> Edward.C wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Given the way Android apps save their state and are then ready to be 
> killed when there is pressure on memory, ready to be reloaded "as they 
> were", then using swap seems a bit pointless?

  Yes, but not all apps can be killed and reloaded/restarted "as they
were". For example those which depend on external data or/and state. For
those apps, you want them to be swapped instead of killed.

  After all, we still use paging (and possibly even swapping) on real
computers, don't we? If all programs/processes would be killable/
restartable without data/state loss, we wouldn't have to do that.

  That said, on my Samsung Galaxy A51 Android 13 with 4GB RAM, 'RAM
Plus' is enabled and set to 4GB (other choice is 2GB). I don't think
I've set that, so I assume it's set when the device is 'Checking...'
when you tap the 'Memory' entry. (Currently, it says 2.7GB of 4GB used,
762 MB available, 525 MB reserved.)

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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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