Thanks again, this looks interesting. Also, where can we find explanation of fields displayed under the Allocation View. For example, "data objects" in our case are piling up and killing the app. What exactly are these and how can I trace back to where these were allocated?
Cheers! On Feb 4, 6:34 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > There's been a discussion recently about heap analysis. There is a way > to send a signal to running processes to get a heap dump. > Unfortunately the format of the dump is currently compatible only with > an internal tool. Andy McFadden wrote a conversion tool that turns the > heap dumps into "standard" hprof dumps that can be opened and analyzed > by MAT, VisualVM, JProfiler, etc. You will information > there:http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Gw1921 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for that Romain. I read your article as well - very > > informative. I'll have a look at DDMS as you've suggested as I'm > > getting out of memory errors left right and center. So far tracing/ > > profiling has proven to be extremely painful. > > > I greatly appreciate the effort being put into a heap analysis tool. > > Do you happen to have an ETA? > > > Thanks again > > > On Feb 4, 4:30 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> The SDK comes with traceview and DDMS to analyze performance. For > >> memory usage, you can use DDMS to track allocations and the state of > >> the heap. We are also working on ways to give SDK developers access to > >> a heap analysis tool. > > >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Gw1921 <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Hi > > >> > I've been running Eclipse on Mac OS X for android development. Since > >> > I'm new to eclipse I'm not sure how to profile my apps. Especially > >> > Memory usage. Could some one guide me to a direction please? Thanks! > > >> -- > >> Romain Guy > >> Android framework engineer > >> [email protected] > > >> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > >> to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > >> public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
