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<concept id="GUID-CE308C71-D8B2-43B3-97FD-B868285ED5FB" xml:lang="en"><title>OOM

Monitor Priority</title><shortdesc>This section explains the OOM Monitor priority and the values that

can be set.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<section id="GUID-950C05B0-1FA9-44D0-90F0-D3AB1EEF4476"><p>To release RAM

the OOM Monitor uses priorities to determine the order of closing the applications.

The OOM Monitor assigns priority for each application which determines the

order (in relation to other applications) of closing the application. </p><p>A

priority of an application is a measure of impact to the mobile device user

in case the OOM Monitor closes that application. Thus closing a low priority

application means that it will have a minimum impact on the user. And closing

of high priority application will have a high impact on the user.</p><p>The

OOM Monitor closes the lowest priority application first as this will have

the smallest impact on the user. It will continue to close the applications

until the amount of the free RAM is above the <keyword>GOOD_RAM_THRESHOLD</keyword> value.</p><p>If

two or more applications have the same priority the OOM Monitor closes these

applications based on their idle time. The application that has stayed idle

for the longest time will be closed first.</p></section>

<section id="GUID-0E58AC12-78BD-4FFC-906E-08EBB46CA26C"><title>Priority for

internal application</title><p> The priority of each internal application

can be defined in the OOM Monitor configuration file. If the priority of an

application is not defined it will have the default priority. Default priority

is also defined in the configuration file. </p><p>The priority of an application

is not always constant. OOM Monitor configuration file can contain rules that

determine how the priority is changed for an application when its idle time

gets longer or when the foreground application is changed. For more information

on the rules that can be set to change priorities, refer to <xref href="GUID-54D5CBD5-0A1F-4835-B5F3-492728B9F51E.dita">Rules

to change priority dynamically</xref></p><p/></section>

<section id="GUID-6D51C8AD-6217-4924-8E55-E5A9459F78A0"><title>Priority for

third-party application</title><p>Third-party applications can use the following

priorities:</p><ul>

<li><p><codeph>Normal</codeph> (default priority)</p></li>

<li><p><codeph>High</codeph></p></li>

<li><p><codeph>Busy</codeph> (infinite priority)</p></li>

</ul><p>By default the priority of a third-party application is <codeph>Normal</codeph> but

it is possible to change the priority as required. For information on increasing

the priority of a third-party application, see <xref href="GUID-1E4FFC56-8473-4E0A-B2E2-4E8DE8B1D00F.dita">Increasing

the Priority of a Third-Party Application</xref></p><p>The OOM Monitor cannot

close a foreground application. The device user can also define the <codeph>Busy</codeph> priority

for background applications which means that those applications are never

closed by the OOM Monitor. For information on how to change the priority of

an application to <codeph>Busy</codeph>, refer to <xref href="GUID-8F8E3814-7ED6-4218-BEEF-741AE0E9366F.dita">Changing

the Priority</xref>.</p></section>