• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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          3 months ago

          I think it’s likely you would have access to all of it because the testing in the article clearly shows the kernel can see the memory. Thus, the graphene kernel should be able to use it.

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      It’s not about a single app, it’s about multitasking without having to reload apps.

      At various times I’ve juggled between 4 apps at once on my phone. Say something like Messaging, Firefox, maybe a lemmy app, and Bitwarden for logging into something.

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      3 months ago

      Adding to what others said it is beneficial to load an app from RAM.

      1. Loads faster for user convenience
      2. Lower power usage so you’ll have better battery life
      3. More RAM reduces disk writes for cache / temporary files / from cold started apps that could write to storage.
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        3 months ago

        When Android uses this larger page size, we observe an overall performance boost of 5-10% while using ~9% additional memory.

        From the linked article. So I doubt that the larger page size is the (only) reason for 16G ram. AI is the more likely reason.

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          Ooh I understand that it’s for AI, I just meant that more RAM would certainly help in this case.