[android-developers] Re: GC calls from other processes causing slowdown (?)

2013-03-31 Thread RichardC
Is/was 2590 your process? On Sunday, March 31, 2013 8:07:50 AM UTC+1, Jason wrote: Hey folks, So I'm in the midst of creating a game and I'm hitting some occasional slow down which seems to be a result of GC calls triggered by other processes on the device. I have profiled *my* app and

Re: [android-developers] Re: GC calls from other processes causing slowdown (?)

2013-03-31 Thread Jason Polites
I'm 90% sure it wasn't, but I make this claim based on profiling heap allocations and I don't think I confirmed that the process ID was actually different. I'll confirm (or otherwise) this and post back. On Mar 31, 2013 2:52 AM, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Is/was 2590 your

Re: [android-developers] Re: GC calls from other processes causing slowdown (?)

2013-03-31 Thread Anthony Prieur
The frame drop looks huge as since Gingerbread the GC is clamied to work concurrently. On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Jason Polites jason.poli...@gmail.comwrote: I'm 90% sure it wasn't, but I make this claim based on profiling heap allocations and I don't think I confirmed that the process

Re: [android-developers] Re: GC calls from other processes causing slowdown (?)

2013-03-31 Thread Jason Polites
OK.. so I've confirmed it's not my process. Here's an example (apologies for the length of the log) 03-31 11:46:12.587: DEBUG/dalvikvm(16714): GC_CONCURRENT freed 325K, 5% free 8827K/9208K, paused 10ms+4ms, total 34ms 03-31 11:46:12.594: DEBUG/656565(16714): Table:account Count:7 Migration