[android-developers] Re: Emulator on Linux 10 times slower than on Windows

2009-12-30 Thread Prof
Hi, I have been tracking this thread because I too have this problem. I'm using an Ubuntu 9.4 twin Athlon 1.6 CPU. with 1GB RAM. I'm using the Linux x86 build, so this may be part of the issue? If I were to build it myself perhaps the problem would go away? It takes at least 3 minutes to start the

[android-developers] Re: Emulator on Linux 10 times slower than on Windows

2009-12-08 Thread brian.schim...@googlemail.com
@Michael MacDonald: Seems like a good advice, but i my case didn't help neither. @arnouf: - I'm not sure what you mean by using the good environment x86 / 64. I tested this on x86 hardware and on x64 hardware, but always with a 32 Bit Linux. Is seems as if the host processor bits have no impact

Re: [android-developers] Re: Emulator on Linux 10 times slower than on Windows

2009-12-07 Thread Michael MacDonald
I've had bad Linux/hardware interactions with the emulator from audio. The emulator AFAIK uses the SDL audio libraries. Try starting the emulator from the command line with the -noaudio flag and see if that works better. brian.schim...@googlemail.com wrote: To answer your questions: I was

[android-developers] Re: Emulator on Linux 10 times slower than on Windows

2009-12-07 Thread arnouf
I had this problem with Ubuntu 8.10, two things : - check that you're using the good environment x86 / 64 - use preferly the SUN JDK 1.6 to compile Android development (you can use the JDK 1.5 to work with sources). Today I'm using a bipro intel, 4Gb, Ubuntu 9.10 and SUN JDK 1.5.0.20 and

[android-developers] Re: Emulator on Linux 10 times slower than on Windows

2009-12-05 Thread theSmith
My emulators behave just fine under 9.10 Karmic Kola, unless I start method tracing, then it really slows down. Are you using the java sun jdk and not the open jdk? On Dec 5, 11:12 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I'm using a dual boot configuration with Windows XP and Ubuntu

[android-developers] Re: Emulator on Linux 10 times slower than on Windows

2009-12-05 Thread brian.schim...@googlemail.com
To answer your questions: I was using Ubuntu two different hardware setups, both had 2 GB Ram installed, about 75% of which was free. See below for an output of free. As far as I can tell (that is, as far as java -version tells me), I'm using Sun's Java: java version 1.6.0_16 Java(TM) SE Runtime