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Old 06-14-2012, 06:11 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by ThomasC View Post
Same goes for web-browsing since it clears the memory cache. You can clear the browser cache in settings, but it does not seem to work as well as a reboot. So, in some large memory intensive pdf's it might be worth a try.
Actually, the browser cache is stored in the mmc memory, not in RAM memory. Rebooting clears up things that were allocated in RAM memory and not freed, either because the app was still running, or because it was a kindlet and the RAM it used really belongs to the JVM and not the kindlet, and some of it never gets freed until restarting the desktop framework (and rebooting is the easiest way).

Clearing the browser cache would also free some virtual memory address space (cached files mapped into RAM) when those files are deleted, so freeing RAM is just a side-effect of clearing the "on-disk" browser cache.

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