can't you use the filesystem instead to act as a cache between your app and the server ? you should be able to mmap files rather easily in Java, and the file size is not accounted for in the heap limit if I remember correctly...
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Shawn McMurdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is disappointing. > > I have speech synthesis and streaming media analytics applications that > would benefit from having access to more local memory. > > With a 16M limit, it forces me to restructure applications to be more > server dependent in ways that are less efficient and would not be necessary > as mobile devices with more memory become available. > > Perhaps an application descriptor could be added that would allow an > application to use more memory. > > That way the default would still be a 16M mmap for all other apps. > > Any chance of incorporating something like this into 1.0? > > Thanks. > > Shawn > > > --==--==-- > Shawn McMurdo > See my Low Vision Guide at > http://lowvisionguide.org > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Android Developers <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:02:27 PM > Subject: [android-developers] Re: 16M Memory Limit > > > The 16MB is not a hard limit built in to the APIs, it is a current > limit based on the hardware we are actually running on. It is also a > little tricky to raise the limit, because it would require making the > VM's garbage collector smarter in how it manages memory: right now it > mmaps a memory region that is this maximum size, so if we make that > maximum larger we can start running out of address space. This is > something that can be fixed relatively easy (again it is not baked > into the APIs), but won't be done for 1.0. > > On Jun 12, 1:22 am, whitemice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>...On top of this, by the time Android is fully loaded on a 64MB device > only 10-20MB of RAM will probably remain.* So, essentially your application > would use all system resources...<< > > > > "640K ought to be enough for anybody" > > - Bill Gates (apparently) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
