[ale] OT: Android RAM

[Brian Mathis]

Not sure if you mean this in the "memory is so often misunderstood
that even programmers get it wrong and make these stupid apps" way, or
the "if that was true then people wouldn't write these kinds of apps"
way.  The truth is the former, not the latter.


❧ Brian Mathis


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Allan,
>
> That explains all of the memory freeing/cached process killers for android.
>
> On Mar 22, 2013 12:18 PM, "Allan Davis" <cajun.code at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Inactive most likely refers to ram which has recently been used by an
>> application (but no longer needed), and is still being tracked. It is
>> basically free ram, and will get freed up as it is needed, but the benefits
>> of doing it this way, is that Applications can be restarted quicker
>> sometimes (think of it maybe as a cache). It's cheap for the OS to free the
>> memory, so prematurely releasing it does very little except give the shiny
>> satisfaction that your free memory is better. Inactive RAM may also contain
>> cache (but not sure what exactly it's referring to).
>>
>> RAM is poorly understood on computers too actually. There was a report
>> recently which claimed that windows 7 was using up all available ram and
>> there was swapping. What the guy at the company didn't understand was that a
>> lot of it was cache which was freed as needed.
>>
>> More info is at: http://reviews.cnet....006694-263.html
>>
>> In a nutshell though, free RAM is wasted ram. The important statistic is
>> active RAM/Total RAM available.. Too many wars have been fought over
>> misunderstanding of RAM usage...
>>
>> From Post:
>> http://www.modaco.com/topic/315527-inactive-ram/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Allan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was running on both of mine cheapo tablets quadrant benchmark. On
>>> system info - memory section the program shows inactive RAM of certain
>>> amount. Anybody with an idea what the inactive RAM means? I would like
>>> my memory back :)
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