Quote Originally Posted by nygrik View Post
im very new to the forums obviously if there is a post count this will say 1...either way where i may not understand the whole linux vs windows based memory performance you guys do..i feel people overlook the value of ATK for battery life, i have tried multiple roms and kernals and own three batteries without the task killer i would barely get through a baseball game or a half shift at work with pandora or something, for me i use my phone as a computer replacement lol...im a little gungho with killing tasks and after reading this i will fix that on some level...thank you for all the hard work

Killing tasks is fine. I think what people are referring too is autokilling more than manually killing apps that you want shut off.

Most people seem to still operate under that WinXP and earlier mentality that the more ram free the better. But really now it's shifted toward "what's the use of all those gigs of memory if they're not being used for anything."

OS are way more efficient at handling the opening and closing of programs than the old days...I remember when win98 needed to be rebooted to clean up the memory/filessytem when it started to just naturally slow down after being left to it's own devices too much.