What is a good amount of free memory?

[jejasin]

I'm looking at the running processes and it shows around 420 MB of ram being used and 270 free. I don't have much running so this kind of seems like a lot of memory being used in idle. What are your numbers like?

Also another question...I can't figure out where to turn off automatic facebook updating. I don't want to get notifications every time someone comments on something on my wall :-\

 

[Channan]

Got 1GB. Not even thinking about it.

 

[mechapathy]

1. The RAM bit is normal. It's the way Android manages resources. It's a complicated explanation for another time. DON'T get a task killer and start killing things. That's bad juju. Plus Android will just fill the memory you freed.

2. Facebook notifications are handled in the settings of the Facebook app. Open Facebook>menu>Settings.

 

[jejasin]

Got 1GB. Not even thinking about it.

Yeah, that's the other thing...If it has 1GB why is it only showing ~700 total? Does the OS use 1/3rd of the ram in the background?

 

[jejasin]

1. The RAM bit is normal. It's the way Android manages resources. It's a complicated explanation for another time. DON'T get a task killer and start killing things. That's bad juju. Plus Android will just fill the memory you freed.

2. Facebook notifications are handled in the settings of the Facebook app. Open Facebook>menu>Settings.

1. Yeah there's no need for task killers anymore.

2. Ah great thanks. I kept looking at my synced accounts and it wasnt there.