I recently upgraded from Eclipse to Android Studio and I'm not really liking the experience. I'm comparing them both on a Windows 7 64 bit ultimate with 16GB of ram and Intel i7 4770 running NVidia Geforce 780 with the latest NVidia drivers if it matters and I'm running the latest JDK and the latest Android Studio.
The Android Studio is very slow in building the project which I can live with but it's also extremely resource intensive and sometimes slows down the PC to a crawl.
Whenever I'm building or running anything in AS, my PC seems to become extremely sluggish. It also causes flickering of screen and occasionally blanking my second monitor if I click on "Gradle build running" spinner which I find very odd. The RAM usage also shoots up to ~3GB which I find excessive for doing nothing (this is when it's idle after a few builds).
In addition, the panels at the bottom of AS keep jumping around which is a horrible user experience (moves from Android to Messages to Version Control or anything else on an ad-hoc basis depending on what's happening which is very, very annoying).
What I would like to know is basically:
1) How do I make Android Studio run better? I may be doing something wrong or missing some updates that I'm not aware of and I'm sure others have also noticed these behaviors and have found some solutions to it.
2) How do I "pin" the bottom panels so that they don't jump around and instead, let me, the user, navigate to them when I wish to instead of automatically switching them?
Many thanks and my apologies again if it's not the correct place for these questions.
Edit 1
Some more comments:
I'm using the latest stable build as of today. The build is Android Studio 1.2.2 Build # AI-141.1980579, Build on June 3, 2015
The behavior happens when using either Java 7 or 8. It doesn't appear to be related to the version of Java.
I am not using Presentation Mode. Just the vanilla view.
Doing the changes to the build configuration (thanks to #Blackbelt and his answer) appears to have helped with the build but the other problems with sluggishness and general user experience remain.
to sum it up
1) in AndroidStudio's settings > compile enable checkbox named Compile independent modules in parallel.
2) Under Help> Edit Custom VM Options I have:
-Xms1024m
-Xmx4096m # <------ increase this to most of your RAM
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=440m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-XX:-HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
P.S. - Some people say Note, instead of VM options, it's better to combine can be overriden by combining those lines into one line single command in gradle.properties, like this :
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xms1024m -Xmx4096m ......
3) I have an old dual core with 4GB ram, running ubuntu. Qs command line option I have only --offline (which specifies that the build should operate without accessing network resources). I also enabled the remaining checkboxes and now it's running ok:
Make project automatically
Use in-process building Configure on demand
Check the AndroidStudio's settings, under compile that the checkbox Compile independent modules in parallel is enabled.
Under Vmoptions I have
-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024
I have an old dual core with 4GB ram, running ubuntu. Qs commandline option I have only --offline , which specifies that the build should operate without accessing network resources. I enabled also the remaining checkboxes:
Make project automatically
Use in-process building
Configure on demand
and it is running ok
Edit
It is possible to provide additional options through studio.vmoptions located at (just replace X.X with version):
Windows: go to %USERPROFILE%\.AndroidStudioX.X\studio.exe.vmoptions (or studio64.exe.vmoptions)
Mac: ~/Library/Preferences/.AndroidStudioX.X/studio.vmoptions
Linux: ~/.AndroidStudioX.X/studio.vmoptions (and/or studio64.vmoptions)
Increasing the value of -Xmx should help a lot. E.g
-Xms1024m
-Xmx4096m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
will assign 4G as max heap, with initial value of 1G
Edit:
On windows the defaults are stored into C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\bin\*.vmoptions. The IDE allows you to tweak those values through Help->Edit Custom VM options (thanks to #Code-Read for pointing it out).
EDIT 2:
Android studio 3.5 makes easier to change same of those values. Just go to:
Preferences > Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Memory Settings
Tips to make android studio fast:
Enable Offline Work:
Click File -> Settings. Search for "gradle" and click in Offline work box.
Go to Compiler (in same settings dialog just below Gradle) and add --offline to Command-line Options text box.
Improve Gradle Performance
gradle can be optimized too. The easy way is to modify the settings in global gradle.properties (create it if not exists in the following folders: Windows - C:\users\your_name\.gradle\; Linux- /home/<username>/.gradle/; Mac- /Users/<username>/.gradle/; ) and in that file, add these two lines:
org.gradle.daemon=true
org.gradle.parallel=true
For More: http://www.viralandroid.com/2015/08/how-to-make-android-studio-fast.html
I detected another reason - Thumbs.db, which affected performance badly.
Go to File > Settings > Editor > File Types and in field Ignore files and folders add this: Thumbs.db;
Now, Android Studio runs like a charm.
Adding more memory helped me:
Click "Help"
Edit Custom VM Options
Android Studio 2.1.2 Edit Custom VM Options:
Change values
like below:
-Xms512m
-Xmx2560m
-XX:MaxPermSize=700m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=480m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
Restart Android Studio
Recommendations:
MUST TO SAY: if you have any chance, spend some money for better PC(cpu),
it's Most important ..
Tweaks:
Some people say, that OS (Operating System) might cause much slowness. For example, XP or LINUX (or etc) was mentioned to perform 70% faster (don't know why..).
Disable VCS by File > Settings > Plugins and disable the following things :
CVS Integration; Git Integration; GitHub; Google Cloud ... things; Subversion Integration; hg4idea;
Editor is a resource eating too (especially on Large Monitors) and slow. Make it much much faster: click Help > Edit custom VM options and add these lines :
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false
-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true
save it and Restart Android Studio.
If Android Studio has a proxy server setting and can't reach the server then it takes a long time to build and waiting for a timeout. Removing it helps much. File > Settings > Appearance & Behavior > System settings > HTTP Proxy.
Another Useful quote (from article):
Modules are expensive… On my current project I had to build some libraries from scratch and had to fork some that almost fitted my needs but not quite! If that modules are not constantly modified, it’s important to have this into consideration: the time needed to compile them from scratch, or even to check if the previous individual module build is up-to-date, can be up to almost 4x greater than to simply load that dependency as a binary .jar/.aar.
Hint: run the gradle build -profile for an HTML report showing where
the time goes regarding the build process.
Note: keep that “unnecessary” modules in your version control system
for the eventuallity of a quickfix/improvement in that dependency.
In your Gradle build script, use only
specific Google Service, like: compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:...'
Instead of full Google Library: compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:...'
(Compile time goes from 2 minutes to around 25 seconds).
Gradle configures every project before executing tasks, regardless of whether the project is actually needed for the particular build. In global gradle.properties adding this will help much: org.gradle.configureondemand=true
Surprisingly, some people say , they solved problem by reducing: 1) heapsizes to -Xmx256m (instead of higher values); 2) Emulator Ram-size (from Edit AVD > Advanced Settings);
Everyday Recommendations:
Don't run multiple projects simultaneously.
Don't close emulator after using once (use same emulator for running app each time; If you test large apps, better to use a real mobile phone instead of emulator).
clean your project every time after running your app in emulator - click Build > Clean Project (or Rebuild), you can use keyboard shortcut.
An anti-virus is causing the slow-down
In one particular system I looked at, this issue was caused by an over-zealous anti-virus that was interfering with Gradle, the build manager for Android Studio. It seems every time Gradle was "touching" a .jar file, the virus checker was unzipping the .jar and scanning it for viruses first. The Gradle build could only continue once the unzipping and scan was complete, thus leading to very long build times (5 min plus). Since Android Studio, by default, runs a Gradle build when you start up, it manifests as an extremely slow start-up.
The problem is extremely easy to check for:
While you are experiencing the symptoms of a slow Android Studio, press Ctrl- Alt-Delete and open Windows Task Manager.
Click on the Processes tab to see the active processes and sort by CPU. If you see an anti-virus taking significant amounts of CPU percentage intermittently while Android Studio appears to be loading, it is likely to be the same issue.
You can verify further by looking at the scan logs of the anti-virus to see if it is indeed, examining the .jar files.
To solve this, you will have to add the correct directories to the "excluded folders" of your anti-virus. Assume that your Windows username is "Username" and you have installed Android Studio on C: drive. You would then request to exclude from the virus check the following directories:
C:\Users\Username\.android
C:\Users\Username\.AndroidStudio2.2
C:\Users\Username\.gradle
C:\Users\Username\.m2
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
Please note that you may need to take additional security precautions if you exclude these directories and you should co-operate with your security department in the workplace. This may involve setting up your own Maven repository if deemed necessary.
(I am aware that this is a late answer, but none of the previous answers have addressed this potential issue)
The best way to boost up android studio runtime performance is to use SSD Drive. It will boost the performance as very much. I did all the above things and felt I should go for new laptop, but suddenly I came to know about SSD Drive and I tried it. Its Much Much better.....
Starting from Android Studio 3.5 some of the settings can be configured via:
Preferences > Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Memory Settings
As you are learning, performance problems with AS are not trivial to diagnose! In my case, an array of 9215-character-long strings (see below) was causing AS to dump threads every time I typed a few characters. The thread dump in turn caused AS to freeze for many seconds at a time. This bug appeared in the Windows 64 bit release of AS 2.2, still occurs in 2.2.1, but was not present in 2.1.
Finding out that long strings were causing my lockups involved a lot of trial and error. But, I learned a lot in the process, to wit:
idea.log contains excellent diagnostics (Help->Show Log in Explorer);
If you see extreme, but intermittent slowdowns, suspect AS is dumping threads. This will be reported in idea.log. If threads are being dumped, the dumps will tell what code AS was executing when the problem occurred;
Find out whether the problem occurs in other projects. If not:
Look for unusual content in the project file you are editing when it happens (atypical indentation, long lines, overall size, special characters, etc.);
Try exporting settings from another project (File->Export Settings) and importing them to the problem project (File->Import Settings);
If so:
If threads were dumped, consult these and text in idea.log near in time to the dump notices for details;
Consult idea.log for messages about memory consumption and see other answers to this question such as https://stackoverflow.com/a/30818099/5025060 for advice regarding memory and other tunables.
BTW, for the present I have worked around the problem I describe above by moving my long strings into a separate file (a new class containing only the array itself). I try not to edit this file with AS:
package com.code_read.numerous;
// Stored in this separate file as workaround for but in Android Studio 2.2 and 2.2.1:
public class numstrings {
// Array of long random numbers, pregenerated to save CPU:
public static String[] numStrings = {
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It's not compiling that's hurting me here, it's the typing. I could disable all the smart features and be back to notepad++ like TomTsagk suggested in a comment. For today I need more cores and RAM.
Playing devil's advocate I'd argue that typing shouldn't require a 16Gb PC octacore PC. Liked Sajan Rana's advice but things are so slow here it felt mostly a placebo.
To be fair I am using 1.4RC1, which is just short of being in the stable branch. Turning the internet off helped a little. The new feature of simultaneous Design (Preview) and Text views working with XML layouts is very helpful.
No, it is ridiculous. Never leave the stable channel.
This answer pertains to slow Gradle build speeds for Windows 10 after you've already gotten the Xmx and Xms memory settings straightened out.
Windows Defender
As far as Windows Defender is concerned it's simply not enough to add folders / files to the Windows Defender exclusion list via "Files" or "Folders".
You must add directories pertaining to Android Studio / Gradle / Java (embedded JDK or Oracle JDK) as "Process" exclusions to Windows Defender :
Go through the answer by David Rawson
During a Gradle build... monitor the Windows Task Manager's Processes
To Windows Defender, add "Process" exclusions for directories containing the file/executable you see utilizing the CPU during a build associated with Android Studio / Gradle
This obviously comes with security implications.
The following describes more details pertaining to using a "Process" exclusion in Windows Defender (as opposed to adding a simple "File" or "Folder" exclusion) :
A file name with full path causes the particular binary file to be excluded, i.e. any files it touches, regardless of where the file is located, will not be scanned by Windows Defender. A file name without any path causes any binary file with this file name to be excluded regardless of its location. A path followed by a "*" (e.g. c:\my\private\tools*) causes any binaries under this path to be excluded. Any files touched by these processes will be excluded. This is different from a path exclusion, where files touched by any process under the excluded path is excluded.
The key here being....adding these exclusions as "Process" type exclusions takes into account "files the binary touches" as opposed to manually finding and excluding every file / folder that is generated by Android Studio / Gradle.
Windows File Indexing
Windows file indexing seems to also slow down Gradle builds. Turn off Windows File Indexing for the directories used by Gradle / Android Studio.
Here are my "Windows File Indexing" and "Windows Defender Process" exclusions :
C:\Program Files\Android\*
C:\Users\<yourUserAcct>\.android\*
C:\Users\<yourUserAcct>\.AndroidStudio3.0\*
C:\Users\<yourUserAcct>\.gradle\*
C:<pathToYourAndroidStudioProjectFolder>
In case setting -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxHeapSize=256m (and etc.. mentioned in above answers) doest work, then do this manually:
Step 1 : Start Android studio and close any open project (File > Close Project).
Step 2 : On Welcome window, Go to Configure > Settings.
Step 3 : Go to Build, Execution, Deployment > Compiler
Step 4 : Change Build process heap size (Mbytes) to 1024 and Additional build process to VM Options to -Xmx512m.
Step 5 : Close or Restart Android Studio.
This might sound stupid and off topic but in my case I was using an external 4k Monitor with my MacBook Pro 13' (MacOS High Sierra, 2016) and I had the resolution set to the wrong scaled resolution. Switching to another scaled resolution where there was no "using a scaled resolution may affect performance" warning resolved my overall performance issues. In my case I had to increase the resolution to max.
So for me it was an overall performance problem which first surfaced with Android Studio, it was not an Android Studio specific problem.
EDIT 25.11.2017
As a result I had to increase font sizes in Android Studio:
and on my Mac in General. I followed some of these tips to get that done.
Just for anyone looking, after upgrading to El Capitan, I noticed a huge lag with the IDE. After increasing a ton of RAM and using the suggestions above, it turned out that I needed to update the legacy Java, and reinstall via: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_US
After installing this, all lag was gone.
Well, one thing that worked for me is using physical android device instead of emulator. As in my PC( i5 and 4GB RAM ) the android studio takes about 700MB of memory and the emulator takes another 700. Thus the whole performance of the computer goes down. Working with a physical device saves the strain from the emulator.
DO NOT EDIT studio.vmoptions ,It may not work.
In gradle.properties file (in app directory) add this :
org.gradle.parallel=true
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx7g -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
I followed this post and it worked great for me.
EDIT:
Following tips have been mentioned in the above post.
In gradle.properties, put this:
org.gradle.daemon=true
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
org.gradle.parallel=true
org.gradle.configureondemand=true
And in build.gradle, put this (Note this will disable lint check):
tasks.whenTaskAdded { task ->
if (task.name.equals("lint")) {
task.enabled = false
}
}
I just want to share my case:
if you need play-store library, don't compile all of it, just compile library that you need. example: if you only need maps library instead of compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.0.2' do this compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:9.0.2' on your gradle
Dont use OpenJDK for the java, I use java 7 oracle and it works well. if yout need to change default java do this on linux terminal sudo update-alternatives --config java and pick the number
I'm using ubuntu 32bit 4GB RAM. that's all the issue I ever encounter with AS.
There are many ways to speed up Android Studio.
Speed up gradle build time.
1.Go to Project gradle.properties file and remove comment from both line.
2.copy gradle.properties file to your .gradle folder so that you don't need to setup for every project.
Enable Work Offline so that Android studio/Gradle don't need to check for newer file over internet every time.
I've quickly resolved this issue by upgrading gradle (Android Studio seems to use old version).
1) Download latest version (https://gradle.org/gradle-download/) and unpack somewhere.
2) Update path in Android Studio: File > Settings > Build, Ex../Gradle
This worked for me!
Open build.gradle (it's inside your project) and change the both jcenter to mavenCentral
(you can do it in Global file too: C:\Program Files\AndroidStudio\plugins\android\lib\templates\gradle-projects\NewAndroidProject\root\build.gradle.ftl however, you will need to do this modification again after AndroidStudio upgrade)
My Android Studio was not only slow in general use, but also when building.
Here's what I did:
Uninstalled Android Studio (Don't delete, uninstall it and check delete the SDK too). Then delete Android folders located in C:\Users\\ folder namely: .android, AndroidStudioX.X
Uninstall the SDKs via the SDK manager, remove everything ( If there is lef SDK folder, delete them )
Download and Reinstall the latest build for Android Studio (v2.1.2 as of this writing); Install only the SDK/Emulators you need;
It's fast now.
My Story before that:
My laptop sports an Intel Core i7-3612QM and 8gig of ram. When I builded, all the 4 cores/8 threads were on 100% usage. My entire system froze until the ~10 minute wass done. Gradle took me like ~10 unproductive minutes of slow down. This is very annoying. I am using Android Studio since 1.4. There were also tremendous slow down when I copy paste code to and from, selecting menus, right-click context menus, editing manifest, editing gradle files, opening layout files, rendering in the UI Editor, etc. Its was very unusable most of the time.
Due to frustration, I did the above steps. Its fast now. Very usable just as before. I build for only ~20 seconds compare to ~10minutes before that. Also, Android Studio eats about 6gig with emulator and browser with lots of tab open, unlike before its hovering on 98% RAM usage. Not just that, I even saved 45 gigs of space for whatever reason. I only use couple of SDKs and Emulators when I checked the Android SDK folder, it occupies 45gig of space! I think the IDE is having a hard time accessing/IO on my SDK folder.
If you've tried other given solutions and still experiencing the same issue, it may be time to remove Android IDE/SDKs altogether and start anew (it might take you sometime to setup that newly, but its worth it. Considering I've been suffering this sluggishness for months and cost me my productivity).
I really guess that this might be caused by cumulative patches that has been done since then. Or the 45 gig SDK folder on my poorly defragmented drive. I don't know and I could be wrong.
Thank you! HTH
I should mention that if you are using Mac, downloading and running an app from the App Store (like "iBoostUp" etc.) which will clean out unused system files can speed up your computer dramatically, including AS.
I also found that adding more memory to my Mac sped up AS as well.
I noticed that AS transfers too much data from/to HDD. It is very annoying, especially when starting to write a new line of code. So, I think, better will be reinstalling a hard disk with SSD. I have i5 with 6 Gb of memory, and the CPU seldom loads more than 50% even at build time. So, the most weak place is HDD.
Click Help > Edit Custom properties and add this line:
sun.java2d.noddraw=false
... worked successfully for me to fix the speed issues (Windows 10 64-bit). It's absolute voodoo as far as I'm concerned (I haven't done any research on why that should work), and there is a warning above that property that it can cause blinking and fail to repaint on some graphics cards, but there you go. (Inspired by LairdPleng's comment, further information)
1 The most common cause of slowness is using Emulator, especially more than one. USB debugging with the external mobile device can be used.
2 Invalidate caches every month or so
One Simple thing that no one has mentioned is File>Invalidate Caches.
Please add in setting.gradle (root folder)
startParameter.offline=true
I have tried to measure speed of Android Studio 3.1.4 on the same hardware: Macbook Pro 2011, RAM 4Gb, SSD 240GB Samsung, Core i5 2.4Ghz. I have installed on this machine 3 different OS: Windows 10, MacOS Hight Sierra 10.13, Ubuntu 18.04. Avarage build time (running command: gradlew clean build, gradlew clean assembleRelease) on MacOS/Ubuntu was around 30% faster than on Windows.
On my another working machine: Core i5 3.0 Ghz 7400, RAM 16Gb, SSD 250Gb. Build time takes 4.34min on Windows 10 machine. The same project on a little bit slower processor, but with the same RAM and SSD and it is running Ubuntu 16.04 build time takes two times faster!! Well I was shocked with results, but still I choose Windows as development machine, because it's much more comfortable for me to use comfortable and usable keyboard and sotfware than on Unix like systems. And even if I had to choose between MacOS and Ubuntu - mac is really much easier to setup everything, and Ubuntu is too complex to use for usual people. Choise is up to you.
Apart from following the optimizations mentioned in existing answers (not much helpful, was still painfully slow), doing below did the trick for me.
HP Notebook with 6 GM RAM and i5 processor I have, still android studio was terribly slow.
After checking task manager for memory usage, noticed that there is a software called "HP Touchpoint Analytics Client" that was taking more than 1 GB memory.
Found that it's a spyware installed by HP in Windows 10 after searching about it in Google.
Uninstalled a bunch of HP software which does nothing and slows down the system.
Now, Android studio is considerably fast - Gradle build completes in less than 30 seconds when compared to more than 2 minutes before. Every keystroke would take 5 seconds to respond, now it is real time and performance is comparable with Eclipse.
This might be true for Laptops from other vendors as well like Dell, etc.
HP really messed up the user experience with their spyware for Windows 10 users.
Uninstall them, it will help Android studio and improves the overall laptop experience as well.
Hope this helps someone. Thanks.
Balance memory consumption and build speed using gradle options. For sample
Android Studio 2022.1.1 (PC RAM 16GB)
Gradle v7.3.3 (./gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties)
AGP v7.2.0 (./build.gradle)
com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.2.0
Cache Fix Gradle Plugin
org.gradle.android.cache-fix:org.gradle.android.cache-fix.gradle.plugin:2.5.3
This Google Services dependency version supports Gradle Configuration Cache
com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.5
./gradle.properties
android.enableJetifier=true
android.jetifier.ignorelist=bcprov-jdk15on
android.useAndroidX=true
kapt.incremental.apt=true
kapt.use.worker.api=true
kotlin.daemon.jvm.options=-Xms1g -Xmx4g
manifestmerger.enabled=true
org.gradle.caching=true
org.gradle.configureondemand=true
org.gradle.daemon=true
org.gradle.jvmargs=-XX:InitialHeapSize=1g -XX:MaxHeapSize=6g -XX:MaxPermSize=2g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=2g -XX:NewSize=1g -XX:MaxNewSize=2g -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
org.gradle.parallel=true
org.gradle.unsafe.configuration-cache=true
org.gradle.unsafe.configuration-cache-problems=warn
Useful links:
https://proandroiddev.com/how-we-reduced-our-gradle-build-times-by-over-80-51f2b6d6b05b
https://developer.android.com/studio/build/profile-your-build#using-the-gradle---profile-option
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I have the MacBook Pro with the new M1 chip with 8GB ram running Big Sur V11.1 and Android Studio 4.1.2. Over the course of a couple hours of work in Android Studio I can get 4 or so spinning beachballs of death where I need to do a force quit and occasionally Android Studio blinks out of existence all together.
I am not using the emulator. The lockups always seem to occur while I am in the middle of editing code.
I have run the Mac in safe mode and that might have slowed down the frequency of lockups, but not eliminate them. (I am not keeping count.)
I did do a data migration from my old Mac (a 10yr old Intel machine that never had this problem, just got to be too slow). Don't know if that has anything to do with the problem.
The only good aspect is that the machine is fast so I have been submitting a crash report every time!
Just wondering if anyone has any words of wisdom to fix this.
Even with increased memory I faced similar issue. However managed to solve it by changing JDK used by Android Studio to M1 compatible JDK. I used Azul JDK.
Make sure to set both JAVA_HOME & STUDIO_JDK variables. Also change the project sdk to M1 compatible JDK.
I use Azul 15.0.2+7 ARM 64-bit macOS version.
Update 23 May 2021 ******
I've switched to latest intelliJ, which has M1 support and installed all android plugins. So far my experience has been exceptional. Debugging can get slow at times, but rest is just fine.
I had the same problem and after a little search i could fix it very easily...
The problem of crashing comes because is not allocated enough memory to the “JVM”.
Go to: Finder->Applications.
Right click on Android Studio. Select "Show package contents"
Go to : Contents->bin.
Right click on "studio.vmoptions". Select "open with"-> "textEdit".
Copy the Text somewhere for backup, just in case you mess it up.
Just change the numbers as shown on the 3 line below. Leave everything else as it is.
-Xmx6154m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=200m
That should fix the crashes.
I was facing the same issue, the way I solved this is I just deleted Android Studio and installed IntelliJ IDEA ultimate.
Jetbrains have an IntelliJ IDEA version special for M1 processor and it works like a charm on my MacBook Air (8gb RAM). The only downside is you can only use IntelliJ IDEA ultimate for free if you're a student, if you're not you'll only get one month of free trial.
For over a month now I've been experiencing problems with VS2017 on my home PC. I even tried submitting the feedback to Microsoft. There's more info about the problems I'm experiencing there.
The problem:
The gist of it is that VS is eating RAM like crazy. As soon as I start opening files, adding new files, using IntelliSense, building or (especially) debugging, the RAM usage skyrockets.
After that it's only a matter of time before the VS crashes and restarts without any error message. Though there are numerous error messages throughout these breif ~20min I have with each session.
Additional details I observed:
Doesn't happen with Python projects, as these don't have to be built constantly. It might be eventually happening if you debug a lot, but I didn't have the chance to check that because most of my Python coding is debugged on an external device
Size of the loaded solution doesn't matter;
UWP and WPF seem to crash the most. Console Projects take longer to crash.
Also affects .NET Core;
It doesn't matter which version of .NET Framework I use;
VS2015 worked perfectly, but I don't have it anymore after the format
What I already tried:
I reinstalled VS;
I refreshed Windows;
I reinstalled Windows;
I checked my drives and RAM for issues - none found;
I switched from Community to Enterprise;
I tried disabling extensions;
I applied some shady hotfix I found somewhere;
Finally, I installed Rider which seems to be the best solution as of now. It still lacks many important features, though.
Is there anything else I can do/try/check? Did anyone experience (and fix) a similar issue?
Cheers!
You get a System.OutOfMemoryException, this means your Visual Studio runs out of free virtual address space (4GB on 64 Bit Windows for the 32Bit Visual Studio because Visual Studio is configured to be large address aware and MS refuses to release VS as 64Bit program which would fix this issue).
To analyze the memory usage, you need to run WPRUI.exe (part of Windows Performance Toolkit (which gets installed by VS2017) for some scenarios, if not, install it on your own), select Reference Set (Note: expand the Resource Analysis entry first to see all options).
and click on Start. Capture the memory usage grow for some 100s of MB and click on Save.
Open the generated ETL with the analyzer (WPA.exe) and analyze what the process devenv.exe is doing.
Also zip the ETL + NGENPDB folder (important) as zip and attach it to your bug report so that Microsoft can analyze it.
I've just downloaded Eclipse on elementary OS and attempted to launch it. After doing so, I saw the loading screen for a few seconds before it disappeared and left me with the desktop. Since then, my computer (an old Dell with 4GB of RAM and an Intel Core Duo) has been very unresponsive and the disk activity indicator is almost constantly lit up. I've been looking at the desktop for around 30 minutes now! How can I solve this problem and launch Eclipse?
EDIT: Running eclipse -clean from the command line produces the following error: The org.eclipse.m2e.logback.configuration bundle was activated before the state location was initialized. Will retry after the state location is initialized.
First, you might review your installation steps. If nothing is obviously wrong, check the following:
check for any error logs
check that you're using the proper Java version
make sure that there's enough memory allocated for Eclipse (see the eclipse.ini file)
as a last resort, try reinstalling it
See also the following guide for installing on Elementary OS: how to install
If that's not working submit more details of your specific problems.
NOTE: You may have to find the right Java and install it "by hand" rather than relying upon the distribution's package manager. You can "point" Eclipse at the right Java by editing the .ini file.
Some related links are as follows:
a similar symptom related to multiple screens and/or corrupt workspace
General trouble-shooting related to your issue and symptoms
I noticed that my development machine running windows server suddenly ran out of space. I ran WINDIRSTAT and see that Resharper cache is using a LOT of space..
It's a normal web project including 3 class projects as well.. The other projects on the server uses about 10 MB and this project 11 GB.... What can cause this?
I don't really know what's gone wrong here - 11GB is rather excessive! I'd suggest resetting the cache (just close the solution and delete the redacted folder, or click the "Clear caches" button in the ReSharper → Options → General options page), and reloading the solution. The cache should be considerably smaller. It would probably be worth updating to the latest version of ReSharper (9.1.1 is the latest released, 9.2 is in EAP builds). If the cache is still this big, contact support, either by emailing support at jetbrains dot com, or by raising an issue directly at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com
EDIT (23/02/2018): Removed the section on integration with Windows disk cleanup. Sadly, this isn't a completed or released feature.
From what I can see, JetBrains recommends you can either clear cache or you could move the cache to a separate drive or folder (especially if SSD space is a premium).
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/2016.3/Configuring_Caches_Location.html
I have a medium-sized solution with 99 projects that has recently started behaving weirdly:
1) If I try to rename a file through the solution explorer, VS will seemingly hang, but after a long time (10+ minutes) it will complete the rename operation.
2) I also noticed today that switching to between Debug and Release mode seems to freeze VS as well. So far I haven't let it run long enough to see if that actually completes.
I've tried both Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, and both exhibit the same problem, so that seems to indicate the problem might not be with Visual Studio. I've tried to check in the event log if there's anything there, but nothing jumped out on me. I've also rebooted and run checkdisk, but it didn't find anything wrong.
Running Windows 7 Professional on a fairly high-specced laptop with 8GB RAM and a new SSD
Update: apparently if I have renamed a file once, I can keep renaming it (and other files in the solution) immediately. When I restart VS, it's slow again.
Update2: I left the computer running overnight to try to switch from Debug to Release, and it managed to do so in the 14ish hours between me leaving work and getting back here.
Visual Studio can be extremely slow in renaming files if you are using TFS with a "local" workspace as oppose to a "server" workspace, and the total number of files including different versions in the TFS repository exceeds 10,000 items.
Contrary to Microsoft's recommendation, I suggest using a server workspace instead of a local one for much better performance. There are also some other downsides to local workspaces and the only upside is being able to work while your TFS repository is down. That's not much of an upside considering if you can't connect to TFS, you probably can't connect to your LAN and there's darn little work you can do anyway in that situation.
To change to a server workspace for TFS in Visual Studio 2015,
In VS click on File --> Source Control --> Advanced --> Workspaces
In the dialog that opens, select your workspace and click Edit...
Click Advanced... (it does not matter which mapping is selected).
Under Location, select Server and then press OK.
Switching over to server may take ten minutes or more depending on the size of your repository.
Once this is done, renaming files should be nearly instantaneous.
When testing I'd made an attempt at setting up one of the projects to build on a different server, both in Debug and Release mode. I though I'd cleaned up both, but apparently I'd only done so under the Debug configuration.
Apparently meanwhile that server has decided it hates my machine, which makes my machine freeze while waiting for it.
Closing Visual Studio and manually editing the .csproj file solved the problem.
Unfortunately 99 projects is not a medium sized solution for Visual Studio but instead a very large solution. Visual Studio simply doesn't scale well to solutions of this size and you're seeing the effects of that here.
The only way to make this better is to factor out your solution into several smaller solutions.
Building on #Daniel Barbalace's answer, my issue indeed had to do with TFS, but I could not switch to server workspaces. What I ended up doing was removing the mappings to any branches or projects that I am not working on at the moment. There is no magic number but once I seemed to get under 50,000 files (globally for the TFS folder) renaming suddenly went down from 2+ minutes to 3-5 seconds.
In my case "git" cause that,i have a bunch of html files in my commics project,so,when i removed .git folder i have again fast renaming files.
I had the same issue. Renaming one file would take a decade. I found a solution however. When I first check out for edit, renaming becomes very fast again.