20MB is not an unreasonable amount of RAM for a web browser to use. In fact if you are browsing more complex pages, it can easily hit 100MB.
For example, about 80MB to show a page from PCMag on a Nexus S: ** MEMINFO in pid 6122 [com.android.browser] ** Shared Private Heap Heap Heap Pss Dirty Dirty Size Alloc Free ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ Native 16 16 16 24932 22436 264 Dalvik 5666 10016 5240 10951 10596 355 Cursor 0 0 0 Ashmem 6228 0 6228 Other dev 11461 4472 6428 .so mmap 7046 1892 1440 .jar mmap 0 0 0 .apk mmap 17 0 0 .ttf mmap 179 0 0 .dex mmap 1450 0 0 Other mmap 382 20 44 Unknown 47505 328 47500 TOTAL 79950 16744 66896 35883 33032 619 On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Onteddu Slreddy <slredd...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to integrate modem on ICS. When I am trying to browse on > browser the browser is not able to load the full page > > > when I launched the browser suddenly the free memory decreasing by around > 20 MB > > before launching the browser: > > > /proc/meminfo: > > Memory free 27372 kB > > After launching the browser > > > /proc/meminfo: > > Memory free 4968 kB > > > I am suspecting some memory leak is happening > > > and If ping to any website it is happening correctly at hat time if I > launch the browser then for ping also it is coming > > "No buffer space available" > > and FTP is working fine > > > Other details: > > > OS: ICS 4.0.3 > modem:Telit HE910 > > > can any body suggest me which part of the code I have to debug to solve > this error > > > > Thanks & Regards > > > O S L Reddy > > -- > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- 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. -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting