Does RAM Booster make a difference?

Anonymous1004

Every Linux community I've been in has told me that swap/pagefile/ram booster just makes your storage last less, while not improving performance at all.

I've kept it off since the day I bought this phone cuz I won't even fill up the 8gb ram in the first place.

But Nothing advertises their phones with 20 gb ram and putting a small disclaimer that it's with ram booster turned all the way up. So I wonder if anyone actually uses it here and gets benefit out of it

Derren

Anonymous1004

Hey 👋

Which phone are you using? This will just narrow down the advise a bit more and performance may differ slightly between devices.

JP

Anonymous1004 it doesn't improve performance…but if you're using some ram heavy app for video editing or something like that it is helpful…as you mentioned you use normal apps so just turn it off…

On the storage last less part … it will anyway last like 4-5 years in high usage case so don't worry about that…

Anonymous1004

Derren I'm on the 8GB 3(a). I stay at 6GB in regular usage as well as under stress; 3GB is cache and my running apps barely take much. Firefox only goes as far as 3GB. I play ZZZ and Hollow Knight with Winlator, which takes a lot more ram, but the system clears out cache to make space for it instead of filling the 8GB completely. So the booster isn't necessary for me

Wish-

Anonymous1004 Just keep it off permanently.

CMF1_hacker

It depends on the size of the files you work with. On my NP3, I use the max setting.

On my workstation in my office, I use 500GiB from 4TiB SSD as the files are roughly 300GiB each and I want them "in RAM."

Grigius

I turned it off and noticed that it performed worse with the booster enabled. I don't understand why it's enabled by default.