Hi. I am facing a strange native memory leak in my application, can someone help me please?
The leak heppens after change the language of the phone in settings. Before changing the language, I have just opened the application and ran dumpsys meminfo in the process. The result was that the process had 18495 KB total memory allocated, which were 11704 KB native and 6791 KB dalvik. After changin language for the first time, opening the app again and running dumpsys meminfo onge more time, the result was that the process had 24115 KB total memory allocated, which were 17324 KB native and 6791 KB dalvik. Looking the heap size in DDMS I saw the process had a total of 6 MB, which makes sense with the 6791KB of dalvik memory allocated. Changing the language again makes the total allocated memory grow, getting to 29335 total memory allocated, which were 22544 KB native and 6791 KB dalvik. As you can see, it is only the native part that grows, therefore using Eclipse MAT on the generated HPROF file does not give any good leak suspects. We are passing the application context instead of the activity context as explained in the article http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html I compared the results with other applications in the phone, and saw that it is common to the memory allocated to grow in the first time the language is changed, but the amount of memory is kept unchanged in the subsequent changes for those other applications. I also read that "DDMS does not report memory that is allocated on your behalf on the native side", but than, how can I make sure that memory will be freed? Also, the content of the native memory must be connected to the dalvik amount of memory, how can I find that connection?? I am getting out of ideas, did anyone see something similar or have any hints for me? Thanks in advance!! Cheers!! Pedro -- 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
