Our Oneplus 3T comes with a whopping 6GB of RAM. And for an average person the average RAM usage is about 3GB, leaving 3-2GB of RAM free. My idea/question is to the developers, that is it possible to treat RAM as a disk? That is can we treat part of it to store apps that are stored in the internal storage? The advantage is that we will get blazing fast performance because the apps will be in RAM itself(and average speed of RAM in GBps as compared to that of UFS which is in MBps). I know 3T is already fast, but it will be an amazing feature.
In theory it's possible, but it will likely never be done because of the huge disadvantage that anything on it would be lost upon rebooting. Also, disk caching already happens and I/O isn't always the bottleneck, so the performance gains wouldn't even be as great as you're thinking.
Is it an improvement on Oreo or worse? I have read that it's worse on some other phones.
I never found the Note 8 on Oreo to have particularly great RAM management to say that it has 6GB of RAM (which at launch was pretty good).
I have been using Pie on my N950N and I think ram management is more or less on par with Oreo.
Is this the normal free ram on all phones?
How is it utilised so much?
When I had Mi3 with 2GB the free ram would be shown as ~800MB
With Redmi Note 3 it was again 50%
With Mi Note 2 it was~ 1.8GB & on rare occasions 2GB
With Redmi Note 5 Pro the same ~1.6-1.8GB
With now the K20Pro it's ~2.8 -3GB
So my question is - is it being utilised to keep MIUI stocks apps etc in cache & is there a huge difference between MiUI & other roms based on aosp etc?
Like basically ~50% RAM is always occupied so how is it being managed - like say on previous redmi note 5pro it was 2GB out of 4GB so if 2 GB here is OS related then why not 2GB again on K20Pro considering it's the same OS MiUI 10? Why~50-60%
I'm guessing on 8GB phones it'll be around 3.8GB free, right?
I wish someone can answer this, this issue is also stressing me out. All the default cleaner apps of the phone does not do anything. It's still running on background.
I kinda miss using a rooted phone. Can't install a custom rom yet because of the warranty.
Have you guys tried the new SWAP on WEEKLY 21.7.21 rom?
It supposed to decrease 5º celsius under load and decrease throttling and battery consumption.
CHANGELOG
System
New - Xiaomi.eu recovery ROM for Mi 11 Lite 5G (renoir)
New - Enabled "Memory extension (SWAP)" feature [Snapdragon 888/870/865 devices]
System launcher
Fix - Uninstalling apps using drag-and-drop was not working in drawer mode
EDIT: from what i gather it's supposed to increase your RAM by creating Virtual RAM using your UFS3.1 Storage, also decrease/use around 3gb of storage space like windows pagefile.
xwonic said:
Have you guys tried the new SWAP on WEEKLY 21.7.21 rom?
It supposed to decrease 5º celsius under load and decrease throttling and battery consumption.
CHANGELOG
System
New - Xiaomi.eu recovery ROM for Mi 11 Lite 5G (renoir)
New - Enabled "Memory extension (SWAP)" feature [Snapdragon 888/870/865 devices]
System launcher
Fix - Uninstalling apps using drag-and-drop was not working in drawer mode
EDIT: from what i gather it's supposed to increase your RAM by creating Virtual RAM using your UFS3.1 Storage, also decrease/use around 3gb of storage space like windows pagefile.
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It actually does not increase your ram and is only used if you are out of ram, Considering the vast majority of phones have anywhere from 6GB - 12GB ram and the average user in all actuality uses no more than four, this is just a useless gimmick that will take up space on your sd card/internal storage and won't give you any performance boost whatsoever.
Back in the day, when phones only had 1-3GB ram, we would root our phones and use these swap files to help with opening files and running apps, but that isn't necessary in today's smartphone world.
jim262 said:
It actually does not increase your ram and is only used if you are out of ram, Considering the vast majority of phones have anywhere from 6GB - 12GB ram and the average user in all actuality uses no more than four, this is just a useless gimmick that will take up space on your sd card/internal storage and won't give you any performance boost whatsoever.
Back in the day, when phones only had 1-3GB ram, we would root our phones and use these swap files to help with opening files and running apps, but that isn't necessary in today's smartphone world.
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I dont think so cause its only for snap 865 870 and 888 and all smartphone with these cpu have 6gb+
xwonic said:
I dont think so cause its only for snap 865 870 and 888 and all smartphone with these cpu have 6gb+
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Its built in to all MIUI, but only benefits phones with four or less GB of ram. Let me ask you, your phone has 12GB or ram and the average user only uses 4GB ram, how is this going to benefit you in any way?
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jim262 said:
Its built in to all MIUI, but only benefits phones with four or less GB of ram. Let me ask you, your phone has 12GB or ram and the average user only uses 4GB ram, how is this going to benefit you in any way?
How Much RAM Does a Smartphone Need?
Every smartphone needs memory, but just how much RAM does a smartphone actually need to work properly?
www.makeuseof.com
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You need to understand how it works. It merely creates a swap file on your internal storage and with the amount of ram flagship phones have (the Mi 11 Ultra has 12GB), it will never, ever be used, but it will take up space on your internal storage, that you could use for other more important things, like pictures, videos, music, games, etc...
Well definitely is not a feature for flagships,
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Well definitely is not a feature for flagships,
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Not a feature for any phone with greater than 4GB ram.
Indeed
Previously I was using Samsung A 70 and note 11 is like two times slower in general performance. Everything feels worse. UI responsiveness, animations, app loading, app performance etc.
Yes, it's 4 GiB ram for Xiaomi and 8 GiB for Samsung. But I don't expect it would matter so much especially since it never uses more than 70% of those 4 GiB (with swap disabled).
I tried to use MIUI.eu but no real difference. Is it really all down to ram or it's defective piece?
After few months I got so feed up that I went back to Samsung and now it feels like real upgrade. Any tips?
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