From ce229059e25066b36c99208a04e8e5696a76abf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Tate <>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:44:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Automated import from
 //branches/donutburger/...@142714,142714

---
 core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java b/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java
index acf41eeb0f3be..d8161936a44d1 100644
--- a/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java
+++ b/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java
@@ -3487,9 +3487,11 @@ public final class ActivityThread {
             callbacks.get(i).onLowMemory();
         }
 
-        // Ask SQLite to free up as much memory as it can, mostly from it's page caches
-        int sqliteReleased = SQLiteDatabase.releaseMemory();
-        EventLog.writeEvent(SQLITE_MEM_RELEASED_EVENT_LOG_TAG, sqliteReleased);
+        // Ask SQLite to free up as much memory as it can, mostly from its page caches.
+        if (Process.myUid() != Process.SYSTEM_UID) {
+            int sqliteReleased = SQLiteDatabase.releaseMemory();
+            EventLog.writeEvent(SQLITE_MEM_RELEASED_EVENT_LOG_TAG, sqliteReleased);
+        }
 
         BinderInternal.forceGc("mem");
     }