[android-developers] High memory usage reported in running services activity

I've seen that my background service is allocating 25Mbs according to the Running Services android window. As it is a lot of memory that I think I don't use I looked to ddms and also made a head dump of my process and then the memory usage is only 2.9Mb What's is the real memory usage? If it is

Re: [android-developers] High memory usage reported in running services activity

You can use adb shell dumpsys memoryinfo to see more details information about app memory usage. Note that Running Services (especially starting with Gingerbread) is showing the aggregate of your process and any processes you are causing to keep around. Look at the details to see if there are