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[Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller@xxxxxx>]

Hi all.

>> I tend to often switch between applications. On Ubuntu Phone, the
>> applications are suspended which leads to the following effect:
>>
>> When I switch to an App it is first displayed in something like a sleep
>> mode. The fonts look unsharp and fuzzy. It takes about 3-4 seconds for
>> the app to wake up. During this time the app is not responding nor
>> giving any thing (but the mentioned fuzziness) that it's waking up.
> 
> What you're seeing is apps stopped by memory management. When your phone
> requires more memory, it will stop apps in the background. That will
> result in only a low-resolution screenshot being kept around. When you
> switch to that app again, it will be restarted.
> 
>>
>> It would be great to have some kind of indication that the app resumes.
> 
> Yes, you're right that there should be some sort of indication. There's
> a bug report for it and design has given a solution for this already. It
> needs to be implemented in unity8 still.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1378267
> 
> 
>> I would also like to be able to define the amount of time after an app
>> falls in sleep mode, but I guess that is not possible to the general
> design.
> 
> The kernel will only start stopping apps when running out of memory. So
> this hasn't anything to do with time really.

Meaning I run oom? How can I figure out which application consumes so
much memory?

Greets
Marcus

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