No, it is not, it is done by the OOM killer in the kernel. It decides what to kill first based on the oom_adj, with higher numbers killed before lower ones. The foreground process is oom_adj 0, the least needed process is 16, system processes are < 0.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chakishante <chakisha...@free.fr> wrote: > So low-mem task killing is performed by Dalvik VM (or Zygote ?), > right ? > > Sounds good, I feel relieved ... > > Thanks ! > Chaki > > On Feb 15, 6:13 pm, AppCoder <dan.schm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You should be good, the dalvik VM only goes after jvms that it has > > started. It won't go killing daemons started by init.rc > > > > Dan S. > > > > On Feb 15, 8:25 am, Chakishante <chakisha...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > On my platform, I have a native service (launched by init.rc) which is > > > needed to initiate communicationwith the modem before rild is > > > initialized. (Modem communication goes through TTY devices). If this > > > service was to exit or die, TTY's opened by rild would become invalid > > > and rild might crash altogether. > > > > > I heard that Android has a built-in mechanism which kills processes in > > > low-memory situations. Does this also apply to native services > > > launched from init.rc ? Could this service get killed ... ? > > > > > Thanks, > > > Chaki > > -- > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
