Is that really the case? I haven't seen any Dalvik bug reports on this, could you manage to point one out, or at least a post / example backing this up..?
Kris On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Piren <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as i know it's actually a bug in android, as the allocation issue is > in the JVM, not the kernel. > > Do notice that i wasn't talking about fragmentation or reaching the heap > size limit... If your heap size is 23.9MB with 100% of it free (thus, plenty > of room), i.e 0MB utilization with 23.9MB of FREE heap, it will still failon > the next allocation of anything above 100KB (you could allocate 99KB many > times, but the first 100KB will fail) > > > On Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:58:56 PM UTC+2, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Piren <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Actually even 5K can crash his app... it all depends on what he did >> > before >> > the allocation. >> > Android has a nasty bug of claiming you dont have enough memory even if >> > your >> > heap has more than enough free space if it grew close to its maximum >> > value >> > previously (and dont't forget fragmentation as well, 10MB of free heap >> > doesn't mean you can allocate 10MB). >> >> Notice that I said "heap size" and not individual allocation because >> of this :-). This is nothing specific to Andorid: Linux does this >> too. > > -- > -- > 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] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
