Memory bloated?
It happened today that during my various tests,
I had to fire up good old top; and I noticed my 1GB RAM being fully used! Now this is totally a newbie question and I apologize for that. Is this normal on harmattan? It seems all the device slowdowns occour exactly once the memory is full. EDIT : which is compatible with swapping happening. |
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http://everythingn9.com/ has an article on swap etc in one of their most recent posts....
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Cache is essentially free memory. |
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Okay;
a bit of investigation turned up that everything is ok. Maybe the fact that I did not reboot my phone in like two weeks contribuited to the bloating :P. So, on boot up (at the first moment a SSH connection via SDK mode is available) the ammount of used RAM is about 720 Megs (according to top). After boot is complete, applications are then pre-started as configured by each application (and as expected; so nothing strange here). Opening many apps turned out to push the mem to 1 GB; but no problems (except the usual slow downs). So nothing weird here :). Perhaps using inception it could be easy to force a non-prestarted mode for most of the apps, which would save ram, and maybe also power? |
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Linux always uses up all available memory for buffers/cache, nothing strange there. Unused memory is wasted memory.
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But also wasted battery. |
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You think that unused memory will not use electricity? |
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I would assume in low power envs unused DRAM would smartly be kept off (thus avoiding unnecessary currency drain). But then again, I have no idea how DRAM in low power works so I am most likely wrong (even tho my thought sounds quite logical to me) :). EDIT: no mentioning of dropping currency drain from unused ram it seems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_DDR |
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So, next time please inform yourself before spreading misinformation. |
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