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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory
 expansion?
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 22:57:37 +0100
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Andy Burns, 2024-12-05 11:26:

> Andrew wrote:
> 
>> "Samsung RAM Plus is a feature found in certain Samsung smartphones 
>>   that creates virtual RAM by using a portion of the device's internal 
>>   storage to provide extra temporary memory when the actual RAM is 
>>   running low."
>>
>> I didn't even realize this existed until now
> 
> Sounds like a swap file, but doesn't android already use zram for 
> swapping?  Not played with (or needed to play with) kernel stuff in 
> android for years ...

Yes, "RAM Plus" is swapping. ZRAM on the other hand is compressing data
within the RAM when it is not needed at the moment and uncompressing it
again when needed. So ZRAM is faster than swapping but does not give you
as much memory since data still remains in RAM, just in a different form.


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Arno Welzel
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