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Subject: Re: What is your experience with Samsung "RAM Plus" virtual memory
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 15:04:49 +0800
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On 12/5/2024 2:08 PM, Andrew wrote:
> To help another user on another thread I checked my settings to show him
> how an inexpensive phone can have enough horsepower to be just fine, I 
> happened to go into my settings & saw a Samsung setting for "RAM Plus".
> Settings > Battery & device care > Memory > RAM Plus = on/off
> 
> When I looked at the RAM Plus in my Samsung Galaxy A32-5G, it showed:
> (_) 2GB
> (o) 4GB
> 
> Looking up what the heck Samsung RAM Plus even is, I find this cite: 
> <https://www.simplymac.com/android/what-is-samsung-ram-plus-is-it-worth-it>
> "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 (or maybe I knew at one time
> and forgot) but what I'm asking here is what is your experience with it?

I think it depends on your usage. If you always have many apps running 
at the same time, maybe it can give slight improvement in performance.

I have disabled it and never noticed any difference, probably because I 
have 12GB of RAM on my A55.