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Originally Posted by Blossom
How often should we restart? My K4 will just freeze when it runs out of memory.
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It depends on how many apps you use, and how well they are written. Poorly written code has more "memory leaks" and will require restarts more often. Now that the developer's corner has supplied tools and sample code to make kindle development much easier than it was in the past, we can expect (and have seen) a lot more poor-quality hacks, but there are also a lot more good-quality hacks as well. Just be careful to use stuff from trusted sources (such as the wikis, and the sticky threads in the developer's corner forum).
Even the best code can have slow memory and resource leaks, due to the way that amazon designed and implemented the kindles. Some of the leaks are in the amazon code. Even the best code available can have resource leaks, but they usually go unnoticed on desktop PCs that are not expected to run for weeks or months at a time without reboots.
In your kindle, you can check the amount of free memory in the settings menu, if you wish to manually restart before it locks up.