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Here are some miscellaneous notes on Android:

oom killer info

Google (Android) developer Arve Hjonevag added a lowmemorykiller feature to the staging area of the Linux kernel in January of 2009. This feature tries to reclaim memory before the system runs out (acting as a kind of cache manager, according to Arve). In Linus' 2.6.28-rc tree this appears in

Application lifecycle (and activity states) can be found here: http://code.google.com/android/intro/lifecycle.html

Applications in different stages of their lifecycle receive a different oom_adj value, which affects the probability of their being reaped.

Initial lowmemorykiller thresholds are set by /etc/init.rc (with the following lines): {{{

  1. Define the oom_adj values for the classes of processes that can be
  2. killed by the kernel. These are used in ActivityManagerService.
   setprop ro.FOREGROUND_APP_ADJ 0
   setprop ro.VISIBLE_APP_ADJ 1
   setprop ro.SECONDARY_SERVER_ADJ 2
   setprop ro.HIDDEN_APP_MIN_ADJ 7
   setprop ro.CONTENT_PROVIDER_ADJ 14
   setprop ro.EMPTY_APP_ADJ 15
  1. Define the memory thresholds at which the above process classes will
  2. be killed. These numbers are in pages (4k).
   setprop ro.FOREGROUND_APP_MEM 1536
   setprop ro.VISIBLE_APP_MEM 2048
   setprop ro.SECONDARY_SERVER_MEM 4096
   setprop ro.HIDDEN_APP_MEM 5120
   setprop ro.CONTENT_PROVIDER_MEM 5632
   setprop ro.EMPTY_APP_MEM 6144
  1. Write value must be consistent with the above properties.
   write /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj 0,1,2,7,14,15
   write /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 1
   write /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree 1536,2048,4096,5120,5632,6144
   class_start default
   # Set init its forked children's oom_adj.
   write /proc/1/oom_adj -16

}}}