There's something in the app that happens in the background
sporadically (daily to weekly). It's CPU intensive, but I don't want
it to slow down the device. Right now, I'm creating a thread with
MIN_PRIORITY, but it doesn't seem to help in anyway from the perceived
"slowdown" of the phone while the thread is running.
Thread thread = new Thread() {
@Override
public void run() {
// cpu-intensive stuff here...
}
};
thread.setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY);
thread.start();
Some ideas I'm thinking about:
- Creating a service specifically for this thread, instead of using
the existing component (Activity/Service/etc.) it was initiated from.
- Object.wait()ing occasionally (although that really won't stop any
CPU intensive stuff from occurring)
- Putting the thread in its own service in its own process, then
giving the process minimum priority. Thing is, I don't know how to
make a process use less CPU time.
Any tips or links on how to get a thread to use less CPU*? More
broadly, to prevent some thread from slowing Android down?
Thanks,
-Matt
* Technically it's not using less CPU - I still have to do the same
things. Really, it's spreading the CPU use out over more time, so
technically it's less CPU usage per unit of time.
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