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What if there's a bug in the foreground process that eats memory? In that case, you don't want to start killing off background processes at random, or you'll ge
by regularfry 17y ago
What if there's a bug in the foreground process that eats memory? In that case, you don't want to start killing off background processes at random, or you'll get a dead phone.
Seriously, google "OOM killer." This problem, and problems like it, are not new, nor are they simple to solve.
- houseabsolute 17y agoI'm aware of what an OOM killer is, but it strikes me that the rules are a little different on a device where the resource constraints and mode of operation will frequently demand all the resources for a single process.