[android-developers] Re: Out of memory / orientation change / Memory Analyzer question

2010-01-22 Thread OldSkoolMark
Thanks for your interest in my problem. I read (and reread) that blog article early on and took its recommendations to heart. The possibility that I still have activity lifecycle bugs is of course real, but I've scrubbed it pretty clean with the Memory Analyzer and Allocation Tracker. One thing I o

[android-developers] Re: Out of memory / orientation change / Memory Analyzer question

2010-01-22 Thread fadden
On Jan 21, 3:17 pm, OldSkoolMark 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? If it's happening after orientation changes, there's a good chance it's a memory

[android-developers] Re: Out of memory / orientation change / Memory Analyzer question

2010-01-22 Thread OldSkoolMark
No effect here. On Jan 21, 6:11 pm, Matt Kanninen 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,

[android-developers] Re: Out of memory / orientation change / Memory Analyzer question

2010-01-21 Thread Matt Kanninen
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 wrote: > Yes,  the OOM is related to 'external a

[android-developers] Re: Out of memory / orientation change / Memory Analyzer question

2010-01-21 Thread OldSkoolMark
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

[android-developers] Re: Out of memory / orientation change / Memory Analyzer question

2010-01-21 Thread fadden
On Jan 21, 12:58 pm, OldSkoolMark 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