Memory usage

[eldinnie]

Hey,

So I've been using my Nexus 5x with much pleasure but lately it's getting impossible to switch tasks fast, because they're all closing because of memory shortage. Looking in my settings it shows me that Android OS (780mb), play services (150mb) and Android system (140mb) and System UI (90mb) together take up almost 1,2GB of the 1,8gb memory. I don;t know if this is related to me being in the preview program (and having a lot of preview images updates over the last year) or it's just that the newer Android takes up more memory.

I'm pondering stepping out of the bèta program and reflashing the stock rom, but I was wondering if any of you can shed some light if this will actually help.

Thanks!

 

[g0d0fmischief]

Hey,

So I've been using my Nexus 5x with much pleasure but lately it's getting impossible to switch tasks fast, because they're all closing because of memory shortage. Looking in my settings it shows me that Android OS (780mb), play services (150mb) and Android system (140mb) and System UI (90mb) together take up almost 1,2GB of the 1,8gb memory. I don;t know if this is related to me being in the preview program (and having a lot of preview images updates over the last year) or it's just that the newer Android takes up more memory.

I'm pondering stepping out of the bèta program and reflashing the stock rom, but I was wondering if any of you can shed some light if this will actually help.

Thanks!

It's part of the new method for ram management. It's normal. You'll notice those take up tons of ram even on a fresh install. Over time the more apps you install the more processes they auto start. This is what will cause those things to happen. For me I noticed for example first when the HDR processing of taking a picture would push hangouts out of memory even when I was actively talking voice, it just wasn't in the front running. Android does much like windows now in claiming lots of memory to better manage and allocate it as needed

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[crazyates]

On a fresh boot, my phone takes up 1.2GB of RAM, and quickly rises to ~1.4-1.5GB. It usually says there, as I don't use a lot of apps, so I'm not multitasking a lot. It's pretty odd compared to my other devices that use anywhere from 500-700MB of RAM for the OS, but it seems to do it's job just fine nonetheless.

Side note, since I don't have a lot of Apps, and I'm not concerned about RAM usage, I've disabled zram and ksm. Haven't noticed any difference, TBH.

 

[g0d0fmischief]

On a fresh boot, my phone takes up 1.2GB of RAM, and quickly rises to ~1.4-1.5GB. It usually says there, as I don't use a lot of apps, so I'm not multitasking a lot. It's pretty odd compared to my other devices that use anywhere from 500-700MB of RAM for the OS, but it seems to do it's job just fine nonetheless.

Side note, since I don't have a lot of Apps, and I'm not concerned about RAM usage, I've disabled zram and ksm. Haven't noticed any difference, TBH.

On a fresh boot it loads every apps auto start process. So that doesn't change anything at all. I am not talking about apps using ram from being run. I'm talking about all the processes they have that are triggered and restart when things occur.

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