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

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.)