Increasingly heavy RAM usage?

[Pontiac1979]

For the first month of owning this Note, I had 3ish GB free at any given time. Right now, I'm at under 1 GB free. This is without any apps running in the background, no new installations, etc. "Cleaning" is not doing anything to improve the situation nor does it show any memory hungry services. I just find it confusing as to why more and more RAM is being used up for apparently no reason whatsoever.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Android likes having RAM full. It allows for app switching to use less power.

 

[Jesus Delgadillo]

This is mine 99% of the time, but I don't mind because my phone doesn't lag one bit or crashes at all, and its super snappy.

 

[chanchan05]

It's called precaching. Also happens on Windows now. The OS learns the apps you use the most and preloads them to available RAM so they launch faster. This is why a seldom used app/game will start slower than say, a game you only open once a month.

However, even if they are physically occupying RAM, that amount is still considered available RAM and they will be kicked out if the system asks for more RAM needed.

 

[mgbosshogg]

Only unused ram is wasted ram.

 

[yarnsrj]

LOL, totally agree. I use the heck out of mine and this Beast runs like a well oiled machine!