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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
Er, what? Do I interpret that to mean closing an app sends an untrappable SIGKILL instead of a SIGTERM?
It does whatever the Linux OOM killer does. I haven't verified that behaviour and I haven't had the time to look it up right now (or try test it).

I'd personally expect SIGTERM followed very shortly after by a SIGKILL, but I don't know.

Originally Posted by wicket View Post
I'm curious about the Android layer. How much memory is used/wasted on the Android sandbox (Dalvik, etc.)? Is it loaded and unloaded when Android apps are opened and closed or is it preloaded at boot time?
It's been a while since I looked at this, but I think it takes around 140mb or so. It's loaded at boot, and kept open permanently on the (probably not wrong) assumption that you will be wanting to use it, and it's not exactly the fastest thing to start/stop on the planet

Note that you *can* of course choose to not install it. Or stop it yourself, if you want (systemctl stop aliendavik.service as root - but note that android applications won't then work until you restart the service)
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