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Re:Lion Is a Quitter by thought_alarm on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @07:14PM (#2865920)
Applications that appear to quit are essentially suspended; they consume RAM but not CPU and cannot do work in the background.

If an application needs to do work in the background then it is not subject to automatic termination by either behavior #1 or behavior #2 and simply remains running.

Re:Lion Is a Quitter by sudont on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @10:12PM (#2866412)
You’re very correct on everything. However, what about anything that is largely async? Background daemons?