Android Ram Usage

EVEN LOONIX USES LESS RAM

>touchjizz
Nothing new here

I run LineageOS on a OnePlus 2 and a OnePlus 3. Having more RAM just means it uses more RAM, and both of these phones have stupidly high amounts of RAM. Really makes me think. I know unused RAM is allegedly wasted RAM, but as someone who has had system hangs from using all his RAM before (not on android, but still), I like to leave a gap at all times.

How retarded are you OP? Android literally uses Linux.

UNUSED RAM IS WASTED RAM

Of course it does. Linux is merely a kernel whereas Android is an operating system.

*linux

That's not true. Root it.

>using samshit software with jewgle play services
You get what you deserve.

UNUSED SPACE IS WASTED SPACE

Teach me bud.

Lineage OS.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're is GNU/Linux is, in fact, just Linux, or as I've just now taken to calling it, Just Linux. Linux apparently does happen to be a whole operating system unto itself and comprises a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Most computer users who run the entire Linux operating system every day already realize it. Through a peculiar turn of events, I was misled into calling the system "GNU/Linux", and until now, I was unaware that it is basically the Linux system, developed by the Linux project.

There really isn't a GNU/Linux, and I really wasn't using it; it is an extraneous misrepresentation of the system that's being used. Linux is the operating system: the entire system made useful by its included corelibs, shell utilities, and other vital system components. The kernel is already an integral part of the Linux operating system, never confined useless by itself; it functions coherently within the context of the complete Linux operating system. Linux is never used in combination with GNU accessories: the whole system is basically Linux without any GNU added, or Just Linux. All the so-called "GNU/Linux" distributions are really distributions of Linux.

I'm using it. My phone lists 1.8 gb but the lowest it ever goes is 1.3 gb.

Which phone? Google apples installed?

>16GB RAM
>Linux system uses 250MB at idle.

Feels good man.

Nexus 5.

My top ram users:
Android OS: 440 MB
KakaoTalk: 163 MB
Google Play services: 140 MB
Android System: 105 MB

Lol ramlet

Play services are doing it.

...

Sucks. I disabled Play Services and none of the built-in apps work. Oh well.

/thread

except ram cache is space that can (and will) be instantly cleared to make room for new stuff when needed

No fucks given

Sounds very fucking comfy my man. Try dwm. It might go to 150mb

RAM is meant to be used, unused RAM is wasted RAM

"Unused" RAM is not wasted on modern operating systems, it's used as system-wide cache

It's like
"Unused cum is wasted cum"

I'm okay desu

Oneplus 5 here. Why won't it use more ram to cache things?

Brainlet here, how did you get to this screen? I could only find the one in device maintenance.

It does. I think this shows ram used by apps, not cached.

>what is cache

Just fuck my RAM up senpai. Can't get it below 1.4 GB. Moto G4.

what are you guys even running?

phone (nothing on): 1.7GB/2.8GB
laptop (few terminals and a browser with 8 tabs):
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15981 625 101 110 15254 15070

ram used on stupid things unnecessarily is wasted ram

Lots and lots of gay porn

It's not Jewish.

Ok, now what?

>uses all your RAM for cache
>LMK still kill all your apps
NICE

>2gb's of ram
>calls others ramlets
The state of pa/g/eet.

Isn't android designed specifically to try and use as much available ram as possible all the time? Seems to be working as intended

Can someone with at least a bit knowledge about how Android works explain why it is so shit at RAM management?

It's using JVM, what did you expect to happen?

Cache. Free ram is wasted ram.
3gb ram upwards seems to be what's required nowadays.

That's what I thought

Why caching is more important than keeping apps running tho? Makes no sense.

just delete some photos breh
are you lazy or something?

absolutely dabbing on all y'all

go back

>Why caching is more important than keeping apps running

Might be the trade off between using raw power to recalculate irrelevant data vs just saving state and loading it up.

I might be wrong though.

I understand that it'll try to cache literally every app that's on the phone, is that correct?

That would be stupid. I don't know much about Android but maybe it caches programs you have opened before and programs that runs on startup.

>Why caching is more important than keeping apps running tho
That's what caching is retard

OP's gotta point.

Nexus 5 running Dec 20 LineageOS 14.1
Freshly booted: 683MB
Arch Linux ARM Chromebook with XFCE
1h 22m uptime whilst shitposting with Chromium: 612MB

it's not, it keeps anything recently opened loaded, so memory usage on a phone where you're using many large apps /should/ be using most of your ram, and the rest is used for regular linux disk cache
see the green lines in the Mem bar indicate usage by actively running software, which in this case is just android and by background apps, i've closed other things to give a better idea of 'idle' usage
the yellow lines indicate disk cache, notice how it fills the rest of memory. programs and files which i've closed don't get removed from ram unless something else wants to use it, this makes re-opening those apps or files much faster, as they don't need to be loaded from disk if they're still in ram

No it's not, retard.