No, apps will constantly get killed and reloaded. Gingerbread on our devices is a single-task-affair. Multitasking is impossible. Literally.
Wow, you are doing it so wrong. Swap set to 10, compcache set to 18, heap set to 32. I can multitask several apps, with minimal lag. This thing almost never hangs, except when first starting an app.
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