On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:32 PM, KK krishnakumar.ramachand...@gmail.com wrote:
In Gingerbread Settings-Applications-MyApplications, the Running tab
has been divided into two. Running Services and Cached Background
Process. So how and when does Android decide to cache a process?
How: by not terminating the process.
When: always, until the device is low on RAM. The algorithm for
determining which processes to terminate first is based on the process
priority, as outlined here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/processes-and-threads.html#Lifecycle
Mainly is there anything my app can do to tell the system to never
cache my process?
No. Moreover, you should not need this, as a well-written app neither
knows nor cares when its process comes and goes.
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