Thanks for everybody for helping me with this. I checked the memory also with a memory profiler and I suspect that it is SearchManager that is keeping a reference to the Activity. And it seems that SearchManager is created for default for all the apps even though it is never directly invoked.
Anyway, I think I will also file a bug report, because there is something strange happening whether it is in the dev tools or in the platform. But my sample app is so simple that I'm positive it is not leaking anything. As it doesn't in 1.1 OS. > The size of your process doesn't make it more likely to be killed. Okey, this I didn't know. I though that when the OS decides to kill processes in order to reclaim memory it does it so that the "larger" processes are killed first. My mistake, should read the docs more carefully. > (4) My meminfo results were slightly different than what Mika > reported at the beginning of this thread. When the Activity is the > foreground my process had 14 views, 4 AppContexts, 2 ViewRoots, and 2 > Activities. After the Activity was destroyed it had 7 views, 3 > AppContexts, 1 ViewRoots, and 1 Activities. So SOMETHING happened > but I don't know how to interpret theses numbers - why would there be > so many views, etc. for a simple 1 TextView application? I have these same results if I start the activity close it from back button and then start it again. Anyway, thanks for help everybody. Now it's time to go to fight MapActivity memory problems =) -Mika On Oct 22, 3:31 am, jotobjects <jotobje...@gmail.com> wrote: > That may be. In this test the memory usage by Dalvik reported by > meminfo never decreased even though the JVM Runtime memory usage did > fall when the Activity was destroyed. > > The main point is that there is not a close correspondence between > memory usage reported by Linux process stats and JVM free memory. So > meminfo is not the best way to detect application memory leaks. > > On Oct 21, 4:27 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > > > > > > My understanding was that Dalvik VM returned memory to the OS, but I may > > be mistaken. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
