[maemo-developers] Hibernation of applications during ptrace

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Philip Van Hoof wrote:
>> Desktop kills only applications that have announced themselves to be 
>> killable.  Application should do that only when they've saved state,
>> are in the background (i.e. not interacting with the user) and able
>> to restore the state when restarted.  I.e. it would be a problem in
>> the application I think.
> 
> Interesting, how would this work? I don't think our application is ever
> setting itself in this state, so I wonder why this hibernation key is
> created? :-\

Either HildonProgram or HildonWindow had function for setting this.


>> And desktop does this only when it's notified that the device is low
>> on memory.  So, close extra applications and if that doesn't help,
>> add swap.  You might also try using gdbserver as Gdb can take quite
>> a lot of memory.
> 
> This also happens in Scratchbox running on a desktop with 2GB of ram.

The desktop hibernation (background killing) should not happen in Sbox
unless you manually send the corresponding D-BUS message telling
of the low memory condition.


(I'm not really related to hildon-desktop so I could be wrong about
these, but this is how I've understood/noticed things to work.)


	- Eero