Whats the current build version of devoid.franco? Is it v5?
Can someone explain what is zram?
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Can someone explain what is zram?
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What is zram?
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doktornotor
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It is in the title of the post itself:
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[ROM][KERNEL][2 JUN] franco |.v14.2.2|VR|CFS|SLQB|SMARTASS|TinyRCU|GPU+|.39v14.2.2 should be sufficient info for you.
Thats the kernal version.
I asked the build version of Rom. I think it is v5.
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doktornotor
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Maybe if you bothered reading the very first post on the franco thread then you would not have to ask such ridiculous questions.
I read that page..but i couldnt pick out that.may be bcoz i am not as good as u in this matter.sorry to ask a 'ridiculous' question.
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Hehe... doktornotor has a point, though!
I've read these forums for 2 weeks before rooting/flashing etc., and the time it takes to create a new thread is the same time it takes to press SEARCH - "zram" and going through a few posts. There's quite a number of explanations, for techy to noob users.
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I've read these forums for 2 weeks before rooting/flashing etc., and the time it takes to create a new thread is the same time it takes to press SEARCH - "zram" and going through a few posts. There's quite a number of explanations, for techy to noob users.
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well, you just waste the page of this thread by bashing the thread starter,
not all people is good and have been on the android for a long time,
the thread starter will not ask this if he knows the function of zram,
are you guys proof which shows person on xda are rude,
please be guided by the rules on this forum,
help the newbies, , dont bash them or make them shame,
now i shame on you guys
this might help,
Creates RAM based block devices: /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...).
Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory
itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides
good amounts of memory savings.
This is enhancement over existing ramzswap driver which creates
virtual block devices (/dev/ramzswapX) which could be used only
as swap disks.
Now, with the ability to handle any kind of I/O request, zram
devices have lot more use cases:
- /tmp storage
- various caches under /var
- swap disks
- maybe even more!
not all people is good and have been on the android for a long time,
the thread starter will not ask this if he knows the function of zram,
are you guys proof which shows person on xda are rude,
please be guided by the rules on this forum,
help the newbies, , dont bash them or make them shame,
now i shame on you guys
this might help,
Creates RAM based block devices: /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...).
Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory
itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides
good amounts of memory savings.
This is enhancement over existing ramzswap driver which creates
virtual block devices (/dev/ramzswapX) which could be used only
as swap disks.
Now, with the ability to handle any kind of I/O request, zram
devices have lot more use cases:
- /tmp storage
- various caches under /var
- swap disks
- maybe even more!
now look, they may be rude but they are right. i mean u will hear same thing on every forum in world, "use search", or google if u wish to learn more.
on the other hand, if u want to search instead of them, and answer any question that has answer 2 clicks away, knock yourself out.
sorry for offtopic
i believe the thread starter searched google before making thread about zram, common people, xda is made to share, not to stomp new ones,
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I flashed zram on my phone but I don't see any differences, performance improvements, free ram? Do I need to do anythiing else?
Can someone explain me as simple as posibile what zram does.
Beside making a sd-ext partition and flash zram do I need to install another application?
Can someone explain me as simple as posibile what zram does.
Beside making a sd-ext partition and flash zram do I need to install another application?
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doktornotor
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Uh. If you are expecting more free RAM from this then you completely missed the bus. zram is using RAM to create a fast compressed swap space. Also, it has nothing to do with ext partitions on your SD card or whatever. Google for Linux swap to get a basic clue on what swapping is.
"If the system happens to need more memory resources or space, inactive pages in physical memory are then moved to the swap space therefore freeing up that physical memory for other uses."
is this something like paging file in windows?
how do I know if zram is working? my sd-ext partition is empty...
I apologize if I bother with my questions but I don't know where or what to search.
is this something like paging file in windows?
how do I know if zram is working? my sd-ext partition is empty...
I apologize if I bother with my questions but I don't know where or what to search.
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You could enter that in the terminal emulator. To use ADB, you have to download the Android SDK (google for that) and install it on your machine, than launch the adb service from the path of installation (navigate to ex: program files/android/platform-tools/adb using your command prompt - on win, or ex: /home/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb if you have linux and put the sdk in your home folder.) - read more about adb on google.
Advice: Do not think about Android running smartphones as you would about a windows pc. You don't need free ram. If you're ram is almost full, it means Android is working well, you're processes are prepared to launch apps at any time. So on Android, ram used => good! If you kill your apps with a brainless task manager, all you do is force your CPU to reopen them and write in the memory again, using more battery and processing power => let the os deal with that, it does it better than you.
Hoped that helped a little, for any Qs, we are here!
Cheers mates!1well, you just waste the page of this thread by bashing the thread starter,
not all people is good and have been on the android for a long time,
the thread starter will not ask this if he knows the function of zram,
are you guys proof which shows person on xda are rude,
please be guided by the rules on this forum,
help the newbies, , dont bash them or make them shame,
now i shame on you guys
this might help,
Creates RAM based block devices: /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...).
Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory
itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides
good amounts of memory savings.
This is enhancement over existing ramzswap driver which creates
virtual block devices (/dev/ramzswapX) which could be used only
as swap disks.
Now, with the ability to handle any kind of I/O request, zram
devices have lot more use cases:
- /tmp storage
- various caches under /var
- swap disks
- maybe even more!1
now look, they may be rude but they are right. i mean u will hear same thing on every forum in world, "use search", or google if u wish to learn more.
on the other hand, if u want to search instead of them, and answer any question that has answer 2 clicks away, knock yourself out.
sorry for offtopic
