i'm reading the second link now, and it almost seems to contradict the first: "Once Android determines that it needs to remove a process, it does this brutally

i'm reading the second link now, and it almost seems to contradict the first: "Once Android determines that it needs to remove a process, it does this brutally, simply force-killing it. The kernel can then immediately reclaim all resources needed by the process, without relying on that application being well written and responsive to a polite request to exit. Allowing the kernel to immediately reclaim application resources makes it a lot easier to avoid serious out of memory situations."