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App with multiple threads reboot the Android userspace [CLOSED]

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I made an app (Java based, without JNI stuff), to stress our android device. It does some intensive work and /sdcard IO writes (They are 60 threads) all of them are with FOREGROUND priority.

After a couple of minutes appeared crashes in different places (system_server - FinalizerDaemon timeouts) and then the Watchdog rebooted the device with message Watchdog killing system process: null.

I tested it also on Nexus 7 and other android devices in production, the behavior is the SAME. It seems that some apk, can overload the system and to reboot the user-space.

Is this behavior (under high pressure/load from FOREGROUND threads) is by design in android Jelly-Bean and are there any plans for some remedy for this situation.

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posted Aug 7, 2013 by Naveena Garg

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That sounds like a bug. Can you please post a report to https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list with a (link to a) small snippet of code that triggers the error, and specify which platform version?

answer Aug 7, 2013 by anonymous
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