Android stops/pauses execution of my background script?

# Short version: **Why is my bash script (running in the background, started via SSHD) not running every ~30 seconds when it should?** (NOTE: SSHD and the script are running as **root**!) ---------- I have a script that I start using nohup bash script.sh & so that it runs in the background. The script is supposed to check whether a specific app is connected using netstat and if not it automatically reconnects using am start and input keyevent. (This turns out to be irrelevant though). I've noticed that even though the script should check every 30 seconds (roughly of course), sometimes it takes minutes to check. I couldn't really figure out why and it seemed completely random (note that the phone's screen is off most of the time and everything is running in the background.), so I made a testscript which is what the question should focus on for simplicity: #!/bin/sh while : ; do echo "$(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')" sleep 30 done That's it. Started via nohup bash script.sh & using SSHD. The script does nothing but print the current datetime and thanks to nohup writes it to a file. I left this running for a while and then wrote another script to check on the results and print the amount of seconds whenever it's above 30. Result: 134 127 115 127 88 113 116 99 110 116 54 44 70 75 62 82 94 68 429 62 81 126 144 39 467 71 62 This is from the output of a script that ran for only 4:20 hours, so quite a lot of times where execution must have been delayed, the sleep was longer than 30 seconds, or whatever is going on.... Can someone explain this? And is there a solution to this? I suspect this might have something to do with memory or power management pausing the script but really it shouldn't happen and I would like my script to run in the background and to sleep for exactly 30 seconds and not be paused or delayed. In this testrun, the highest was 467 seconds, but the highest I've seen with the main script so far was a little over **20 minutes**. This is rare, but 5-10 minutes of a delay happens a few times a day.