Thread: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
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sljonson is offline sljonson
2009-11-29 , 11:35
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Originally Posted by maxximuscool View Post
wow all your RAM lol is only about 18MB free.. What is using it? all i see is about 220MB used up by some app you've installed. Normally it should have 100MB free I think, I've read it somewhere that the RAM will be about 100MB left over when boot up. Something that using your RAM is draining your Battery for sure. But which one?

The swap RAM is not show up though.
Don't freak out about the the amount of free memory. The kernel will tend to use most of the memory available as the system runs.The expect stuff will be application code and data pages. The kernel will use the rest for file buffers so it can avoid having to access (abysmally) slow disk (as compared to RAM). The kernel is quite deft at managing RAM. RAM is a very slight battery drain as compared to te CPU running at full speed, or the WIFI or Ceullar radios.
 

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