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

From Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory expansion?
Date 2024-12-05 22:57 +0100
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Andy Burns, 2024-12-05 11:26:

> Andrew wrote:
> 
>> "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
> 
> Sounds like a swap file, but doesn't android already use zram for 
> swapping?  Not played with (or needed to play with) kernel stuff in 
> android for years ...

Yes, "RAM Plus" is swapping. ZRAM on the other hand is compressing data
within the RAM when it is not needed at the moment and uncompressing it
again when needed. So ZRAM is faster than swapping but does not give you
as much memory since data still remains in RAM, just in a different form.


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Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de

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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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