<p>Allan,</p>
<p>That explains all of the memory freeing/cached process killers for android.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 22, 2013 12:18 PM, "Allan Davis" <<a href="mailto:cajun.code@gmail.com">cajun.code@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px">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). </span><br style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px">
<br style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px">RAM is poorly understood on computers too actually. There was a report recently which claimed that </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Premium-64bit-System-Builder/dp/B004Q0PT3I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353684038&sr=8-2&keywords=windows+7" title="Shopping Link Added by SkimWords" style="color:rgb(46,54,74);text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px" target="_blank">windows 7</a><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px"></span><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px"></span><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px"> 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. </span><br style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px">
<br style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px">More info is at: </span><a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20006694-263.html" title="External link" rel="nofollow external" style="color:rgb(81,170,218);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px" target="_blank">http://reviews.cnet....006694-263.html</a><br style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px">
<br style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px">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...</span><br>
<div><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(78,86,94);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif,Georgia,Courier,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19px">From Post:</span></div>
<div><font color="#4e565e" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Trebuchet MS, sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><a href="http://www.modaco.com/topic/315527-inactive-ram/" target="_blank">http://www.modaco.com/topic/315527-inactive-ram/</a></span></font><br>
</div><div><font color="#4e565e" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Trebuchet MS, sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#4e565e" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Trebuchet MS, sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px">Thanks,</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#4e565e" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Trebuchet MS, sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px">Allan</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was running on both of mine cheapo tablets quadrant benchmark. On<br>
system info - memory section the program shows inactive RAM of certain<br>
amount. Anybody with an idea what the inactive RAM means? I would like<br>
my memory back :)<br>
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