I'm trying to create an emulator with 2047 mb ram.
When I run it, I get this error:
[2011-02-22 14:24:14 - Emulator]
[2011-02-22 14:24:14 - Emulator] This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
[2011-02-22 14:24:14 - Emulator] Please contact the application's support team for more information.
[2011-02-22 14:24:26 - Emulator] Failed to allocate memory: 8
I understand that lowering the number will make it work. But I'd rather have it with more ram, so I can test a game I'm developing. I'm assuming with more ram, it would run faster...
Has anyone got 2047 mb of ram on the emulator? If so, how? What settings did you use? Did you change anything special on your computer?
Using windows 7 64-bit, updated to the latest android sdk. Also I have over 8gb of ram available. I do have one device (motorola milestone) to test on, however since it is a network-based game I need at least one other client (hoping to use the emulator) to run with in addition to my phone.
Solution to running a faster emulator:
http://androiddevnotes.com/2011/03/08/1299521520000.html
Runs my game a lot faster, comparable to phone quality.
-- Update 08/24/12 --
I see that people still come here and comment on this answer, and I have done more research on this issue. I present to you the results of my findings.
NOTE: These tests were run on my computer, your computer may be different.
Running an Android 2.2 (armeabi) emulator with Property 'Device ram size' = 2048 will
fail, just as before
Running an Android 2.2 (armeabi) emulator with Property 'Device ram size' = 2048 MB will pass, however if you actually check the ram on the device, its around 128 MB.
check 1: Settings > Applications > Running Services - add all the numbers on the bottom of the screen
check 2: run the following command in adb shell: cat /proc/meminfo/ and note the MemTotal field
Running an Android 4.1 (armeabi-v7) emulator with Property 'Device ram size' = 2048 will work, however if you actually check the ram on the device its around 512 MB
check 1: Settings > Apps > Running tab - add all the numbers on the bottom of the screen
check 2: run the following command in adb shell: cat /proc/meminfo/ and note the MemTotal field
Running an Android 4.1 (armeabi-v7) emulator with Property 'Device ram size' = 2048 MB will work as well, but with the same results as 3.
Conclusion
Adding 'MB' as noted in some of the comments below may allow your device to be launched, however it doesn't actually have 2 GB of RAM. Even with a 4.1 Emulator, the RAM Size is at 512 MB.
Recommendation
Please use an actual device for testing.
I also get this error. Use RAM 512.
I was also getting this error message after upgrading my Android ADK Tool to 20 (even though I have more than sufficient RAM). No changes made to the 'Device RAM size' property helped (whether higher or lower, or with "MB").
What did work for me is running the emulator at the command line and specifying the RAM amount there (less than the default in my case); for example:
emulator -memory 512 -avd my_avd
Add in Run Configurations window the parameter
-memory 512
See screenshot for reference
Solution is that you go and edit the config file for that perticuler avd in .android folder in your user folder in c drive
with RAM = 1024 MB instead 1024
The problem is MB is not there...
I had the same problem but then figured it out. The problem was in the amount of ram I had specified for the virtual machine, and it was 1024MB by default, now I changed it to 512MB and it works; though my pc has 8GB of RAM.
I had the same issue but before I got the issue it asked me to capture a video source. I disabled the camera support and I was able to use 1024MB of RAM. Using Windows 64bit, Xoom (Android 3.0). i hope this helps for anyone with the same problem.
Edit the Device settings and change the RAM allocation to a lower number. If it was 1024 or More, reduce it to 512Mb or 256Mb.
You can Change it in "Edit Android Virtual Device (AVD)" dialog's Hardware Section --> Device ram size
I changed my monitor's DPI settings from the launch options of AVD and syncronized it with the original and current setting of my monitor, and it works for me.
I was getting "failed to allocate memory: 8" errors as well. I have W7-64bit and 8GB of RAM. I found that by running AVD "as Administrator" the error disappeared, allowing the emulator to launch.
Simple computer reboot helped me after I installed HAXM and got that error :)
I had to do this Go to "Tools -> Android -> AVD Manager -> Chose your device -> Edit -> Advanced Settings -> Change the RAM parameter to 512 Mb.
Related
I am running an Android Virtual Device on an Apple Silicon macbook.
My AVD has the following line in the config.ini...
hw.ramSize = 1536M
But when I run the emulator is starts a process called ...
qemu-system-aarch64
Which in activity monitor, is listed as using 4gb of ram.
I assumed that the hw.ramSize would indicate how much ram the AVD should take up...surely the emulator program itself could not be taking an additional 2.5gb.
What is causing all this ram using?
Build was successful but when I tried to run the project using AVD, it shows the following message. I'm not sure what went wrong.
Warning: No DNS servers found
emulator: device fd:608
HAXM is not working and emulator runs in emulation mode
emulator: The memory needed by this AVD exceeds the max specified in
your HAXM configuration.
emulator: AVD RAM size = 1536 MB
emulator: HAXM max RAM size = 512 MB
emulator: You might want to adjust your AVD RAM size and/or HAXM
configuration to run in fast virt mode.
creating window 43 59 329 583 emulator: UpdateChecker: skipped version
check
You need to adjust your adb ram size.
First open android studio.Then at the top icon bar you can find this icon.Click it.This will open all available virtual device you have.Select your virtual device and at the right you can find this icon .Click it.This will open a new window.At the bottom of this window you can find this .Click it.Then there will be a section like this .Then change RAM size 1536 to 512.Like this .Now click finish and run your application.
Edit:
If your target api is upper than 19 then you need to adjust your haxm installer ram size because when you run your app the avd ram size will increase to 1 GB.
So how to adjust your haxm installer ram size.Follow the step mentioned below.
If you install android studio by it's default position then you can find haxm installer in this locaiton
'C:\Users\Niyamat\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager'
Go to this location(make sure you change userName Niyamat to your username).Click "intelhaxm-android" and run it.Then an alert dialog pop up like this click yes.Then click Next.And finally click Set manually.and remove 512 and add 1024.Something like this .Then click next then install.Wait few seconds for install.And that's it.I think now you can run your app on your virtual device.
Hope this help!
HAXM RAM size should be more than AVD.
Better decrease the RAM size of AVD by editing the emulated device or the other way increase HAXM RAM size.
HAXM RAM size should be more than AVD. Decrease the RAM size of AVD or increase HAXM RAM size.
To reduce ram of avd (Wich I recommend)
Go to your avd manager. Delete the emulator and create a new one. However for the new one make sure it's ram is less than 512 mb.
I got this annoying issue. Every other posts are discussing haxm, but in my case, it works fine. I also tried to reduce RAM of AVD(1024M, 512M, 256M). Just cannot got AVDs work.
I got these messages when I attempt to launch an AVD.
emulator: WARNING: Increasing RAM size to 1GB
emulator: device fd:604
HAXM is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode
Cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Invalid argument
It seams if I chose higher API version (like 21+), RAM assigned to AVD will automatically increased to 1GB, then comes "Cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Invalid argument".
My solution is to choose lower version system images and set AVD RAM as 512 MB.
My emulators usually use 512MB or 1GB of RAM. I create a shell script which starts 8 emulators for my testing. Obviously, it will consume all of my available RAM.
Is there a way I tell emulator to use less RAM via console command? Some ad hoc RAM size which will not change the default RAM size.
I usually start emulators via (Ubuntu machine)
emulator -avd "adb name" -scale 0.72
Can we set emulator RAM size via console before we start emulator?
Yes, please use -memory option; e.g.:
emulator -memory 256 -avd Nexus_One_API_10 -scale 0.72
I don't think that you can set the RAM through emulator command line parameters, but if you are starting your emulators with a script you can edit the emulator config.ini file before starting it.
On Ubuntu, the file should be located at ~/.android/avd/emulator.avd/config.ini. Before starting each emulator, open the corresponding config.ini file, set hw.ramSize to the desired value, save the change, and then launch your emulator with the new settings. A bit tedious, but I can't think of a better way.
I found some ideas how to run android emulator faster, but for Nexus 4 configuration still it doesn't work correctly.
My PC:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 (4 x 3,20Ghz)
4 GB ram memory
ATI 5750
Windows 7 64bit
Virtual Device Configuration:
Name: Nexus 4 ;)
Device: 4.65" 720p (720 x 1280: xhdpi)
Target: Android 4.2.2
Skin: Display a skin with hardware control - checked
RAM: 756
VM Heap: 64
Internal Storage: 200MiB
PC is very fast updated but without SP1 - because after SP1 some games and application were working slower for me then before SP1.
So, main issue is: emulator works all the time with 'lag'.
For ex: I clicked 'menu' button and then I was waiting 3s to see list of apps.
And everything on emulator is working like this. It is very tiring to make good tests.
Do you have some ideas how can I improve it?
Best Mob86.
The emulator runs at a usable speed with top end machines, but has a slight delay on older ones. There is no need to run the AVD on a Virtual Machine. But it seems to be faster that way. The emulator takes long to startup but you don't have to close it after testing, the reason for this is it is starting up the android OS, much like booting windows.
What you can do?
Disable boot animation (speeds up boot time)
Use Host GPU (use with nvidia cards, renders with your GPU)
Snapshot (boots up from snapshot of previous boot)
Further info can be found here.
I am using: http://www.genymotion.com/ this is virtual android device based on VirtualBox and run faster than nexus 4.
Start the emulator using this cmd line
emulator -no-boot-anim #your_emulator
It reduce 50% boot time..