Originally Posted by bmszabo

hmmm.. a newbies question (with an not-rooted Hero); is there any chance of making this great idea applicable for not rooted Hero's as well.. or is it one of those it-is-just-not-possible thingies?

I'm guessing it's not possible as you need to make changes to a system file.

I used this settings:

echo "1536,3072,4096,21000,23000,25000" > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree

But after a while (2 days) i noticed that at least 1 program andFTP was giving me a FC on start.

Trying different settings now.

Those who have disabled Compcache, do you still show a swap file when you type:

# free

?

I commented out all the lines for Compcache and rebooted, but I'm still showing I have a swap file of 48976KB. I remember before I enabled on Compcache it always showed 0KB in that row.

Originally Posted by an0therus3r

I used this settings:

echo "1536,3072,4096,21000,23000,25000" > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree

But after a while (2 days) i noticed that at least 1 program andFTP was giving me a FC on start.

Trying different settings now.

Are you using this with Compcache enabled or disabled?

Edit: What I'm finding is with Compcache enabled the swap file is not being used because the internal task killer doesn't allow the memory to dip below the threshold to actually use the compcache swap file. Other than claiming that space back by disabling compcache, I'm curious to know if it would be beneficial to configure the internal task killer thresholds or compcache (swappiness setting) to actually use the compcache swap on occasion?

Originally Posted by oldskool73

Hi everyone,

This seems to work quite well for me too, so I've created a very simple app to help testing, it's in the market place called 'MinFreeManager' or you can search for my nic 'oldskool73' to find it also.
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Hi oldskool73!

Thanks for the work!

Unfortunately I also cannot find it in the market. Is it possible that you declared the app using SDK level 1.6 or higher?
If so, would it be possible to redeploy it using sdk 1.5? Otherwise it will not be found by users of 1.5 ROMs in the market.

had no trouble finding in app store, using kagudroid 1.1.4, on telus in canada

Don't want to hijack this thread, so anyone having trouble finding MinFreeManager in the store or wanting to give feedback etc should hop over to my blog post about it where you can find the APK for download and leave comments....

(sorry, just joined to can't leave external links yet...)
www dustypixels com/blog/2010/01/30/android-app-minfreemanager/

Yeah, it is 1.6+ I'm afraid, it was just created on a whim in one night and I started building it for 2.1 because that's what I'm on, didn't give it much thought. I later tried stepping down the SDK's but it wouldn't build on 1.5, not sure why yet. As you can see on the pic on my blog post, it was 6.30am by then so I just put it up as is. Sorry about that for anyone on 1.5, will take another look when I get a chance.

Need an app similar to the overclocking widgets for this.

Originally Posted by ljmeli

Modaco Kernal: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623308

Thanks! I added a custom file to that directory. However it doesn't seem to load my settings after reboot.

Originally Posted by oldskool73

Don't want to hijack this thread, so anyone having trouble finding MinFreeManager in the store or wanting to give feedback etc should hop over to my blog post about it where you can find the APK for download and leave comments....

(sorry, just joined to can't leave external links yet...)
www dustypixels com/blog/2010/01/30/android-app-minfreemanager/

Yeah, it is 1.6+ I'm afraid, it was just created on a whim in one night and I started building it for 2.1 because that's what I'm on, didn't give it much thought. I later tried stepping down the SDK's but it wouldn't build on 1.5, not sure why yet. As you can see on the pic on my blog post, it was 6.30am by then so I just put it up as is. Sorry about that for anyone on 1.5, will take another look when I get a chance.

Just wanna say great work and it sucks it doesnt work for 1.5 right now but I was thinking if you could add a default option to your app where it inserts the default values 1536,2048,4096,5120,5632,6144 back to the minfree.