Larger Page Pool vs. more free RAM

[bast525]

I have done a search, looked at the Wiki and other articles describing exactly what page pool is and what it is used for. I have been flashing ROMs on my Touch Pro and trying different page pool sizes, but haven't really seen a noticeable effect, other than how much RAM I have I have available after a soft reset. I tried page pools ranging from the stock 6 all the way to 32 MB and really can't say I saw any noticeable performance increase or decrease.

Maybe I wasn't looking in the right place? Where do you tend to see better performance from a larger page pool? Why would more page pool benefit more than having more free RAM?

[forforce]

Yeah..that question is bothering me too....As I noticed .... I used 5mb pool page and in netfront sometimes I had ,,cannot load page..low memory " ..smthing like that. Now with 6mb as I surfed ...I didn`t had that problem with the memory yet. I dunno maybe is because of the bigger poolpage that I have now on this rom.

[bast525]

wow... really? No one here feels like answering this question huh?

[Rudegar]

there is no answer depend on the apps one use
and how many apps one wish to run at the time

lower page pool mean lower io speed == slower programs which depend on
loading stuff

lower ram mean few apps running at once without running out of mem

judgment call for each user I'd say