No effect here. On Jan 21, 6:11 pm, Matt Kanninen <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a similar issue, randomly getting the external allocation too > large for this process error. > > For me, it started when I added android:targetSdkVersion="4" to the > manifest, and went away when I removed that bit. > > On Jan 21, 3:17 pm, OldSkoolMark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, the OOM is related to 'external allocations'. I googled > > 'dalvikvm external allocation' and there's plenty to pore over. Is > > there an update on this issue in general? > > > Here's the relevant logcat excerpt: > > > 01-21 13:04:49.140: INFO/WindowManager(79): onOrientationChanged, > > rotation changed to 1 > > 01-21 13:04:49.140: INFO/WindowManager(79): Setting rotation to 1, > > animFlags=0 > > 01-21 13:04:49.150: INFO/WindowManager(79): Config changed: > > { scale=1.0 imsi=0/0 loc=en_US touch=3 keys=1/1/2 nav=3 orien=2 > > layout=18} > > 01-21 13:04:49.370: DEBUG/StatusBar(79): updateResources > > 01-21 13:04:49.680: DEBUG/dalvikvm(2630): GC freed 556 objects / 24056 > > bytes in 127ms > > 01-21 13:04:49.790: ERROR/dalvikvm-heap(2630): 614400-byte external > > allocation too large for this process. > > 01-21 13:04:49.790: ERROR/(2630): VM won't let us allocate 614400 > > bytes > > > On Jan 21, 2:47 pm, fadden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 21, 12:58 pm, OldSkoolMark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Is this telling me something useful? If forcing a GC with DDMS > > > > reclaims the memory used by now-defunct instances of my activity, I > > > > would have thought the VM would have garbage collected some, if not > > > > all of these defunct activities automatically. Do I need to request GC > > > > at the very beginning of my activity lifecycle to make sure? > > > > Something doesn't sound right. What does logcat show? Are you seeing > > > GCs in the log file? Is the OOM related to "external allocations"?
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