Yes this is normal. Process management is explained here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#proclife
<http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#proclife>Keeping it around has no negative impact on the user. People who are complaining about this, frankly, don't know what they are talking about. There is a lot of mis-information flying around as people promote the use of these task-killers as a cure for imaginary problems. (I'm not saying that they don't help in some cases but the cases where they do help -- blowing away running services -- often actually cause other problems, and are not applicable here.) On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an app which declares a BroadcastReceiver, the receiver gets > the broadcast, does what it needs to, then ends ensuring that > everything is tidied up as needed. When I examine the system through > the DDMS view in Eclipse the process for the application is still > running after the receiver has completed. I've even boiled it down to > a simple test case which gets a shared preferences instance from the > context, checks a random setting, and then exits, and, when run on the > 1.5 emulator (which is the minimum supported OS level) the process is > still hanging around. > > The reason this is an issue is memory usage (which shows under DDMS as > around 2MB). I've had queries about why the application still uses up > memory even when it's not doing anything, so, my question is; Is this > behaviour normal, or have I missed something that would make the > process exit? > > Al. > > btw, DDMS shows only 7 threads; > > main (status: wait) > HeapWorker (vmwait) > Signal Catcher (vmwait) > JDWP (running) > Binder Thread #1, #2, and #3 (all native) > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
