On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Indicator Veritatis <[email protected]> wrote: > What is 'nebulous' about it? By free memory, he most likely means "the > amount of memory not yet allocated to any process, available (to user, > not system processes) on the heap".
Android caches processes that are not being used, to save time when a new process is needed. Those processes can be rapidly terminated if and when RAM is needed by other existing processes. Whether RAM that could be freed up by terminating cached processes should be counted in "free memory" is one reason for nebulousness...er...nebulosity...ummm...being fuzzy. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 2.2 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
