Thread: why does installing more applications 'slow' down a phone?
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SavageD is offline SavageD
2010-04-12 , 05:10
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Originally Posted by AlMehdi View Post
Thats why i mentioned the swap.. as something that rely on both cpu and memory. Please read and understand before you say something.

Yes, but he said it got better when he uninstalled programs.
I was just tryna help. Although it's quite obvious, I was not I wasn't tryna address his problem directly. Just giving him a general idea as to why his 'installed' apps are slowing down his device.

Originally Posted by AlMehdi View Post
Ohh.. here you understood.. and In a way.. yes. The swap exists so you don't have to rely on the "real" memory space. Swap is more like ram. A partition you can't save anything on. You can however fill it up but it's not likely.
???I already know what ram and swap is. All your doing here is concentrating on swap and trying to change the topic. You main argument was that:

Originally Posted by AlMehdi View Post
Memory and Cpu does not rely on each other
This is the point I was addressing. why dont you stick this argument, and stop trying to focusing on swap, lol. I'm yet to see some valid arguments to your main point.


Originally Posted by AlMehdi View Post
I have used the same machine for 4 years and have not yet experienced an slowdown. When i had windows.. i formated it every 6 month..
I'm sorry, I can't take your word for it as mine does have slowdowns, so does every linux system at my university . They all have had slow downs over the past yrs. trust me I know. I have to program on them >_>. No linux machine can age without having slowdowns, nuff said.