I have just installed Systempanel. I don't want to use a task manager/killer as I am of the opinion that this is not needed on an Android phone. I read an article by Lekky about task managers, and he recommended using Systempanel. I will be using this primarily as a system monitor, but also to force close any misbehaving apps.
I am trying to work out how to interpret the info given about each app. How do I recognise an app that is hogging resources? What do I need to look for? On the main page it states whether the app is background, foreground, service or visible. It then gives a number, e.g. 24.4M - is that 24.4 MB, or what? And is that the amount of memory it is using up? Then there is CPU followed by a time - presumably that is the amount of time it was operative the last time it was used??
If I then tap on the individual app in the list I get a lot more info about the CPU (total CPU time, time since start, average consumption) and memory usage (resident, shared, effective). There is no explanation in the help files about how to interpret this info.
Please can somebody give me some pointers. Thanks.