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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by digi_owl on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:08AM (#14342135)
Another interesting tidbit is that as storage fills up, Android slows down.

I suspect this is an artifact of using the Linux kernel. As said kernel puts a focus on IO ops, and the EXT file systems spend a whole lot of time looking for contiguous free space before committing a write.

Thus if your app do a bunch of writing (say syncing local data with the cloud) at start, it will start quite slowly on a near full Android device.

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by vetinari on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:05PM (#14345554)
In the past, many Android devices had problems with the quality of the flash - as it aged, it also slowed down. Occasional reset and full trim helped for a while, until it didn't help anymore. The poster children of this problem were Asus Transformer Prime and the original Nexus 7.
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