On Feb 22, 12:13 am, Alex B <[email protected]> wrote:
> At this point I expect the process to disappear from the process
> table. Yet it remains indefinitely. But why?
>
> Also, the process is so persistent that I can bind to it again, and I
> see that it is the same exact process responding because the PID
> (process ID) is the same!

This is by design. Inactive processes are kept around as a caching
mechanism. They're killed off as needed to reclaim memory:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#proclife

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Jon

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