I think there is going to be updating of the user documentation to better
explain this. The current SDK documentation I think is relatively clear
about there being empty processes (the last process bucket) that can be
hanging around.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Al Sutton
On Feb 8, 11:25 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote:
Thanks for the clarification Dianne.
I'm guessing the confusion comes from people who (like me) are
familiar with the traditional Linux process model of when a process
has finished it dies
What constituents finished for an Andorid
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#proclifeKeeping
it around has no negative impact on the user.
It would be possible though that a broken application still has active
threads around which are eating CPU cycles, correct?
Michael
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On Feb 9, 12:45 am, Michael Elsdörfer elsdoer...@gmail.com wrote:
It would be possible though that a broken application still has active
threads around which are eating CPU cycles, correct?
Empty processes have no application components. ASFIK the JVM is gone
and all the runtime artifacts of
Actually, I believe you should go further, and say it has a POSITIVE
impact on the user.
It takes time to tear down and recreate a process that may be reusable
a short time later. And Android can possibly do the teardown at a less
busy moment.
The only downside I see is that we developers will
Yeah hopefully it is a positive impact.
Developers really shouldn't have to explain this, and I am very sorry you
are being put into this position. I don't really understand why users would
pick out some applications to complain about, when every single one
(including the ones built into the
Thanks for the clarification Dianne.
I'm guessing the confusion comes from people who (like me) are
familiar with the traditional Linux process model of when a process
has finished it dies and aren't expecting a garbage collecting process
management system :).
I'd read the process/threads
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