Complex wallpaper uses a lot of memory with stock Launcher

[Guest gusthy]

It was a very funny situation.

I have a mate who also has hungarian Blade with 256 MB of RAM. He is total noob in the Android world, but has a good knowledge of Linux. He even didn't know how to change the wallpaper.

We were talking about it, the conversation was the following:

Me: - Hungarian Blade cannot multitask without swap enabled, so custom kernel is neccessary.

Him: - No, my one multitasks well.

Me: - Impossible.

Him: - No, it isn't.

Me: - Yes, it is.

Him: - No, it isn't.

Me: Yes, it is.

Him: Look at my phone, it multitasks well.

I did so, and really, it multitasked well.

At this point I reflashed my phone with stock ROM, installed the same apps as Him, and voila', it multitasked well. Then I added my favourite wallpaper (the one with a nice tree from stock rom), rebooted, and it stopped multitasking well. Reset to simple grey wallpaper, multitask is fine.

As a next step I installed Zeam launcher, added the wallpaper, rebooted, and multitask was correct.

Any clue?

[Guest gusthy]

nobody?

[Guest rayraven]

Can you install Watchdog and see what's eating the CPU?

Dont forget to set it to profile system processes as well.

[Guest m_w_clarke]

It's not a live wallpaper you are adding is it?

Just checking cus that will eat your resources.

[Guest just99justathome]

It's not a live wallpaper you are adding is it?

Just checking cus that will eat your resources.

Ditto.. I have the Live wallpaper from Pauls daily apps, the christmas tree/ snow scene, lovely paper, but kills performance.

Watchdog regularly pings up all day. Ive had upto 90% CPU usage warnings with that. This wallpaper also causes issues with

'System Media' High CPU.

[Guest gusthy]

It's not a live wallpaper you are adding is it?

Just checking cus that will eat your resources.

sure, but it was a normal wallpaper.

the problem is not the cpu overload, but it seems like RAM becomes low.