> This shows up as high CPU but, because it is in the background, the rest of the system performance should be largely unaffected. And, as said, draining your

> This shows up as high CPU but, because it is in the background, the rest of the system performance should be largely unaffected. And, as said, draining your battery for no good reason. > Had the background process been allowed to keep growing its working set then foreground applications would be forced to page out Why would they? As said, you could still page out the processes running in background mode first if you actually start running out of memory. And if after trimming all the background processes to 32mb you still don't have enough memory, you would be in the same situation either way. The current implementation has absolutely no advantage.