What Is The Standard Background Process Limit

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Posted xvi June 2016 - 01:31 PM

I have many apps on my Android phone. Background processes in programmer options are set up to standard limit by default. How many processes means that? As much every bit possible? I desire to limit the number of processes to 4. I know that would requite me a better performance. But I'one thousand non sure if it could bear upon the apps in a negative fashion. Any opinions?

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Posted 16 June 2016 - 02:09 PM

This is from chankeypathak over at XDA Delevopers

Setting this choice forces Android to stop each process equally soon as it is empty (that is, when no services are started and no activities are on screen for that app).
To be clear: this selection won't finish apps that would normally run in the background from doing so. Your mail client volition still run periodically to check post, if it'south configured to do that. Apps that apply Google Cloud Messaging to receive button letters from Net servers (such as Gmail and Facebook) will still be able to do then. The option would be better named "Cached background process limit", since it limits apps that would otherwise show up with that label in the apps manager.

Adjacent fourth dimension each app needs to start, Android has to load the app from storage, from scratch. This uses more power and takes longer than running it again when the process was in memory. This doesn't only mean when you lot start an activity from that app deliberately; it also means the email client has to be loaded afresh each fourth dimension it wants to check e-mail. Over fourth dimension this can build upward to a huge bombardment bleed.

Because this is a evolution selection, it can also trigger rare bugs in sure apps, and those apps' developers may not exist cracking to fix them. Ane example is that, on Nexus devices running four.2.2, when this option is on, the in-built Agenda app volition keep restarting itself with this choice set, because stopping the cached groundwork process causes the calendar's content provider to be removed, which causes a loop of services restarting each other to check for agenda updates. If this happens, the loop will run downward your bombardment very chop-chop.

Overall I can agree, limiting the groundwork processes is just for app dev, and if you limit apps that auto run, they will still run. Then Standard Limit is saying the standard amount that tin be used on your device past the available RAM earlier something has to be airtight. Then there is no Difficult number due to unlike RAM sizes. So more RAM more than in the standard limit.

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Posted 16 June 2016 - 02:25 PM

Thanks for the info. Only the DiskInfo on my phone still displays 600MB / 831MB used with 4 background processes. This is well-nigh as much as with Standard Limit setting. Yet the perfomance seems to be a little flake better.

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Posted 16 June 2016 - 02:33 PM

It volition. Unless y'all become a listing of process and go in and manually disable each i you don't want then it will stay that way.

But remember if you don't know what you are disabling then don't do it, crusade everything from WiFi not working, to the touchscreen not working tin can happen.

two other items for y'all to ponder.... i. don't mess with the developer setting unless yous have to. ii. Install a antivirus if you don't have it already.

Also disabling items similar auto rotation, confront recognition, gyro and GPS and non using 4G unless you need to will aid with that and your battery.

Games, email apathetic blah apathetic that alert yous, push information etc will swallow your RAM.

With about 50 of all things disabled on my telephone that I never use, I still run virtually one-half RAM, its what Android does.

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Posted sixteen June 2016 - 02:50 PM

- I'm using System Monitor which ends a number of tasks running in background.

- I accept Avast Mobile Security installed.

- Confront recognition and GPS already disabled.

- Scyronization is off + No push notifications.

- Some bloatwares are disabled etc.etc.

Thanks anyway for your kind assist.

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Posted 16 June 2016 - 02:56 PM

no problem, if your telephone is a few years quondam that could also be why. Apps get bigger. any who adept luck.

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Posted 20 Dec 2016 - 01:35 AM

Change limit background process affects your device including battery performance, thirdy party apps & stop more loaded apps and more. You tin choose limit from no groundwork processes / ane process at most / two process at most / iii process at most / iv procedure. Using this commodity pace past step guide to set background process limit android phone. I hope this article volition assistance you to solve your problem.