Where is all the ram?

[potatolover1102]

Whenever I go the apps menu and check what is running I can see at the bottom a section for ram showing used amount and available amount. When I add them it never shows more than 695mb of ram. Does ICS use up over 300 mb of ram?? My thunderbolt used less with sense and I thought that was the point of a pure experience was it not taking so many resources to run? Does anyone know why it doesn't show the full 1GB that it is supposed to have?

 

[anon(596177)]

Whenever I go the apps menu and check what is running I can see at the bottom a section for ram showing used amount and available amount. When I add them it never shows more than 695mb of ram. Does ICS use up over 300 mb of ram?? My thunderbolt used less with sense and I thought that was the point of a pure experience was it not taking so many resources to run? Does anyone know why it doesn't show the full 1GB that it is supposed to have?

Yeah, mine shows the exact same 695 mb. is the remaining 305mb for cached apps maybe?

 

[Andrew Martonik]

Some is reserved for the system and GPU etc.. There are lots of breakdowns of this but long story short is everyone has the same readout as you, its not a bug. Don't lose sleep over it.

 

[greydarrah]

As long as it does what I want quickly, I'm not concerned with how much I have vs how much is available.

 

[kca2000]

Same here, 695 avail. The phone runs smooth 95% of the time and i think i have 120 apps on board at the moment. So i'm not concerned.

 

[Small_law]

The thing about Android memory usage on a stock phone is this: let it do it's thing and don't worry about it. The system manages memory. If you force close apps or services hoping to free up memory and make the phone faster, the system will just restart the stuff it needs it running. This why automatic task killers are not a good idea. Task killers will force close apps but the system will just restart them. The two fight each other back and forth until your battery is dead.

Now if you see a severe decrease performance or decreasing battery life, certainly check out the running apps to see what's eating away at your phone. Generally though it's best not to worry about it at all.

 

[yosteve]

Same here, 695 avail. The phone runs smooth 95% of the time and i think i have 120 apps on board at the moment. So i'm not concerned.

Except most apps and the web browser have to reload when you multitask between them.

 

[axne1]

Grab watchdog to monitor rouge apps.

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