Ram Management, S10E

[isabel95]

The S10e has 6 gb of ram.

I was surprised when checking out my storage that I had only 2gb left.

There was also a message that to increase the memory I should close unused apps.

I did so and wound up with with 2.3 gb free. Rest is used for system and apps, but I'm not using any apps. Confused.

 

[Rukbat]

Multitasking the Android Way explains the whole thing (by one of the developers), but basically, unused RAM is wasted RAM, so Android fills as much RAM as it can - always. When you manually kill an app, if Android needs that app running (there are processes in some apps that are used by others), it reloads it. Let Android manage RAM - it does a good job. (If you load an app that really needs 4 or 5GB of RAM, Android will kill background apps to make room - and that takes nanoseconds.)