11-08-2008, 05:54 PM
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Re: Pagepool and OS memory
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Originally Posted by taxilian
You misunderstand. More ram available to programs, but that means less ram allocated to the operating system. In the Touch Pro, given how much RAM we have, most of the slowdown is in the operating system (rotating the screen, switching applications, etc). Thus less pp = less speed and more ram because the ram isn't reserved for the OS and thus is "free", but the OS either doesn't have as much RAM or has to go allocate as it needs it.
It's kinda like a swap file on a computer, but faster =]
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so it appears to me that there's supposed to be an ideal pp and that a higher pp would be moot because the OS functions wouldn't need it or be able to utilize it anyways.
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