[ale] OT: Android RAM

[Justin Goldberg]

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<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> 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<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20006694-263.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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