[Q] ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 vs ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=0

[stefan.pilsu]

Forces your home launcher into memory:

ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 or ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=0


...someone may have a very short explanation ?
What means each one ?

Thanks

 

[questionmark]

Hi
If you search taming the OOM killer on Google you will find a lot of information about this.. Linux as specific way to address low memory conditions and android I believe uses it with some more specific feature.. For what I understand the higher the value the more chances the process will be released from memory also depending for how long the app stayed in memory unused.... So having it to one I believe would make it release sooner than zero.. I believe you can go further bellow with negative value. Also have a look for minfreemanager on market and minfreemanager in general on Google.
The way android manages memory somehow puzzles me... It's probably very clever... But find it unnecessarily kills app sometimes...
People say ICS as a much better memory management than HC having also GT 8.9 with ICS rom it seems to be the case.. Less memory used overall less app unnecessarily killed for what I saw comparing to HC...

This is why..... I can't wait having ICS on the 7.7....

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[teiglin]

I don't claim to understand the task cleaner completely and I agree it does seem to kill tasks sometimes when there isn't any need to free up memory, but here is some interesting investigation and a way to customize the memory thresholds at which it will decide to kill various types of tasks.

 

[stefan.pilsu]

Forces your home launcher into memory:

ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 or ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=0


...someone may have a very short explanation ?
What means each one ?

Thanks

The sense of my question is:

Which of two "lines" we can use for better, smoother scrolling between homescreens .

 

[jawil]

=1 is supposed to keep the launcher in memory. But it doesn't help on my pad anyway. After exiting another application, the launcher is empty and has to redraw the icons, widgets etc.

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[questionmark]

I would agree it is not to improve scrolling performance but attempt to try avoiding your launcher to be released from memory... A lower value tries to delay the memory manager to kill the launcher.

IMO this setting only does not help much..as I use it set to 0...Tweaking with minfreemanager does help a bit though but at some point getting back to your launcher you will see it refreshing icons/widget... ICS might be better in that respect...

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