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Originally Posted by johninbigd
I'm bummed that the Droid doesn't have more RAM. I have an iPhone that I want to get rid of because it's constantly running out of memory. It drives me nuts dealing with memory issues on that thing.
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I too would wish for more RAM. More RAM means better performance, but also more power drawn and shorter battery life.
UNIX family OS kernels like Mach and Linux only report "out of memory" when they run out of virtual memory (swap file). Android uses the Linux kernel. The iPhone, like Steve Job's NeXT platform, uses the Mach kernel.
I found a posting on
android-kernel@googlegroups.com suggesting that the eclair kernel uses less than 100MB, leaving at least 150MB for VM. That would be backed by a pagefile on the 512MB internal flash. I wouldn't expect Motorola/Verizon sets up the Droid to swap to the removable flash card so I theorize it comes limited to about 660MB VM. That's not too shabby, but could be easily outstripped in a multiprocessing environment.
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G1 user documented how to manually configure Android to swap to the SD card:
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Originally Posted by kickfliprock13@androidcommunity
* sped up my application opening time and when i delete alot of messages it no longer freezes
* use at least double the ram that the phone has for your swap but no more than 2gb |
The first reply to the post points out
there's an app for that (no, not on the iPhone)
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Originally Posted by TheBlur@androidcommunity
FYI - there's an application on the market that does the exact same thing but it's always nice to know how to do it manually. I've been doing it for a while now
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