How to exit/close apps

[SigSoldat]

I'm with you guys. I don't necessarily care if certain things are loaded into memory because it speeds up the process when I choose to use that app. HOWEVER, I can't understand how Corporate Calendar gets loaded when I've never opened it, set it up, or used it. Why would it load something that I've never used? That's hardly "intuitive" from a user standpoint.

I was using ATK for a while but didn't really notice a difference in performance. My major improvement came from turning off autosync, BT, and WiFi, and lowering the screen brightness. What could probably help even more is a power management app that would drop/increase the CPU speed based on what I'm doing. I know this is possible with rooted systems, but I haven't found it for a non-rooted yet.

[Talon8Ya]

I generally don't do this but I will share a bit of my exp as a systems admin and have linux servers at my company under my oversight.

Linux in general does do a good job of cleaning up unused processes but it is not fool proof. It can and will get bogged down with programs in memory that are not running if not properly configured.

With android I have noticed that apps not used open by themselves which yes is well and good for fast start and use but when apps you have never used open by themselves then your O/S has a coding and or a permission issue.

I have never used nor even opened the corp calender or several other progs and they will be resident in memory. This should not happen. The O/S should leave them off and instead load apps that have been or are being used.
I have seen this problem with SuSE Server and Red Hat as well as Fedora.
The way I fix it on the servers is by editing the permissions to stop this kind of behavior and limit programs to opening in memory to ones that are used the most first and on down to least used. Progs and apps that are never used do not get auto started. This keeps things running smooth and makes things work more smoothly for the apps and progs that do get used.

I also don't like the idea of having to back out of several pages of browsing just to close the browser without using a task killer prog.

While these are by no means show stoppers they are something to keep an eye on.

The debate rages about task killer progs and I will not reopen it here other than to state that I do use Advanced Task Killer to close programs that open themselves despite me never using them. I don't use it to kill anything else.

I hope that 2.1 when it comes to the Droid does better at managing programs or at least opens up better user management and control of apps.

Thank you for that post. It makes perfect sense. I never use Corporate Calender, or You Tube, and those apps are always resident in memory... along with some others I don't use either, and I am always finding those apps open... I set my ATK to close all of the unchecked apps..

Not a problem.
ATK works really well and I do not need an auto kill so this every now and then keeps things snappy.