You probably have large bitmaps or a lot of bitmaps, whose allocation I believe does not show up in hat. (Note that I am pretty sure the error message you are seeing is in fact due to a failing bitmap allocation.)
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Ward Willats <goo...@wardco.com> wrote: > > I got a dump and jhat working -- thanks for the tip fadden. But I > still don't see any monster allocations or leaks. This trace just > came in: > > 04-07 10:06:56.341 D/ActivityBase( 820): setContentView(v) aft > memory: T:5767 - F:1167 (KB) > > ...(do some work, but certainly don't do any any monster allocations) ... > > 04-07 10:06:59.101 E/dalvikvm-heap( 820): 26840-byte external > allocation too large for this process. > 04-07 10:06:59.101 E/ ( 820): VM won't let us allocate 26840 bytes > 04-07 10:06:59.161 D/AndroidRuntime( 820): Shutting down VM > 04-07 10:06:59.161 W/dalvikvm( 820): threadid=3: thread exitin > > > According to System.freeMemory I have 1.1 MB of heap right after > setContentView(), and yet I can't allocate a lousy 26K 4 seconds > later. > > Puzzling. > > >On Apr 3, 2:22 pm, Ward Willats <goo...@wardco.com> wrote: > >> Are there any tools besides ddms to look at the heap? My app is using > >> over 2 MB just sitting there -- and the ddms "track allocations" > >> don't add up to near that amount. How can I get a good picture of > >> what is going on in heapville? > > > >If you're on the emulator (or have root access on your device), you > >can create a heap dump. Some info here: > > > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/2597bcce2dffd921 > > > >In "cupcake" you can dump it with android.os.Debug.dumpHprofData > >(String filename). > > > > > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
