System notes:
1. Using Android Studio 1.1.0
2. Using Windows 8.1, 32 bit
3. Using JDK 7
4. 512mb was given to the emulator and Intel HAXM is installed and in use.
Hello!
My Android Studio emulator memory is being stupid. When I try to run an AVD, it does the normal stuff, then gives me this error message:
The memory needed by this VM exceeds the driver limit.
Cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Invalid argument
I fully understand that it is exceeding my PC RAM, however I can't fix this error as I can't find where to lower the memory allowance. Also, 512mb is the recommended amount, so will lowering the allowance have a bad effect?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
The memory allocated has to be lower or equal to the memory usage you have set during the installation of HAXM. Relaunch the installation and modify it.
This answer belongs to ph0b from: How to fix: "HAX is not working and emulator runs in emulation mode"
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I am Facing this error recently. Everything was fine i was learning android studio and suddenly out of nowhere this hit me up.
****Emulator: Warning: Quick Boot / Snapshots not supported on this machine. A CPU with EPT + UG features is currently needed. We will address this in a future release.****
This error made me to delete my virtual device and create a new one. Then it became too slow to start and run the applications. I am running an i5 - 4570 with 8 gigs of ram and a NVIDIA GT 610. I have installed HAXM and virtualization is enabled.Please help me through this.
Kudos.
This error means that your CPU do not have right configuration the INTEL VTX technology in your PC.
Android recommend this steps:
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/device
Is more reliable in some cases use a physical device via USB instead of emulator.
Android Studio uses 100% CPU when I'm just coding, even if I type a single word CPU use raises to the 100% and comes to back normal, and if I keep typing it takes 100% CPU all the time.
What I have tried is :
File > Invalidate cache and Restart
Change max heap size for android studio by editing VM options
"Power Save Mode" it runs perfectly when it is turned on. but it also disables some useful features of IDE and I don't want to disable it.
removed .android and .AndroidStudio3.0 folder from c:\users\username\
Android Studio plugins are set to default. no extra plugins are added. I tried disabling a plugin that can be disabled like Git and SVN but it's still same
I'm running windows 7 64-bit OS and Android Studio 3.0 and OS which I re-installed yesterday. I did not install the JDK - Android Studio is using default OpenJDK.
I've searched on internet but it did not help. any help would be appreciated.
Unfortunately, the new Android studio do require RAM.
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You can download Android Studio 1.5.2 which should support 2Gbs of Ram And I would also recommend you to move to Linux Ubuntu OS from Windows 10 as you can set a portion of your Hard disk space as Ram memory(4gbs recommended) during installation(Search on Youtube on how to do that)."
Source quora:
It seems your systems config is low. as Android studio cares of itself for CPU uses so it gives its best.
Reasons being
You have Core 2 duo that is too low for Android Studio.
You have 4gb Ram, that is too low again.
If you work on some large project then 2gb of ram is necessary for Android Studio. and Java takes unexpected upto 4gb or more.
Solution
Increase ram by 8gb and processor at least intel i3
kill java or invalidate cache and restart if you get stuck of hanging your android studio.
Here is my CPU uses that goes upto 3gb for Android Studio and upto 4gb for Java.
The recommended hardware requirements for Android Studio are:
Microsoft® Windows® 8/7/Vista (64-bit Recommended)
Intel i5 4th-5th gen processor.
6 GB RAM
2 GB hard disk space + at least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x,
As Java uses it’s own Machine known as JVM(Java Virtual Machine) for program compilation and it has some complex tasks like generate classes then verify byte code and then execute program with JIT(Just In Time)
And as Android has Natively developed in Java the slow compilation will be the issue i presume. But with new Android Studio feature known as “Instant Run” compilation and development of Android apps made more easy.
As i am developer of Android apps, I use
Intel i5 6th gen 2.70 Ghz processor
12 GB of RAM (8GB in first slot and 4 in Second Both DDR3)
1 TB of Hard Drive
Nvidia G-Force 940M 2 GB of Dedicated GPU for running Adobe After-Effects, Maya and Unity like Software which needs Dedicated GPU.
That’s all and Still Android Studio sometimes Lags with such high performance Hardware with the more complex and big apps(Complex Projects).
I think if you are going to buy a hardware and use it for at-least 3 years get the exact specs i have (or similar), However if you are frequent hardware changer use specs i mentioned first.
And for Emulator use Genymotion as it is way faster then the emulator which Android provides. Or use some other alternatives like Memu, Blustacks, Andy etc.
Try to add more Heap memory for Android Studio, go to Help -> Edit Custom VM Options... and set -Xmx2g (depends on your project size), after restart AS.
Did you try to set the power plan to best performance instead of balanced plan.
This may consume the battery but may solve this problem.
If you have any USB drives laying around, try using those for ReadyBoost. It may help you.
For the uninitiated, ReadyBoost, in a nutshell supposedly makes your WINDOWS PC faster by using how much ever space you dedicate it to (aka extra RAM)
For the uninitiated, to set it up,
Plug your USB / SD /WHAT EVER DIGITAL STORAGE you have into your computer
Go into Windows Explorer > This PC > Right click on Whatever storage you have plugged in
Select Properties in the Context (right click) menu
Go to the ReadyBoost tab
Choose what to do with it
Go to: Preferences > Version Control > Background. Now listed under 'Background Operations' are 6 options. I disabled the first three options which are:
Perform update on VCS in background, Perform commit to VCS in background, Perform checkout to VCS in background.
This reduces lot of power consumption of the CPU
I am trying to run two AVDs side by side. The thing is that whichever AVD I open second, runs MUCH slower than the first one. It's not CPU or RAM, there is enough overhead.
Any ideas?
I was also experiencing the same issue where the 2nd emulator was slow as molasses. I did some research on this and I think I have found a pretty decent solution. I am assuming that you have already installed Intel HAXM. If not, then please do so.
For best performances, it is advised that you allocate atleast half of the system RAM to Intel HAXM. This has been mentioned on the Intel HAXM page here under the Tips & Tricks section.
I allocated about 6 GB RAM to Intel HAXM and after that the performance of the 2nd emulator improved by a great deal. I would highly recommend you do the same. If you have already installed Intel HAXM, then please uninstall it and install it again with the amount of RAM as suggested on the above mentioned page.
Increase the memory that can be allocated to HAXM. When you install it you will notice a line in the final screen:
Note: The memory reservation setting can be changed by running this installer again.
Navigate to AndroidSDKDirectory/extras/intel/Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager
Run the installer (not the silent installer) and manually adjust the HAXM memory limit on this screen:
At the time of this writing a stock Pixel (XL) emulator uses 1536 MB memory by default. So if you want to have enough memory available to HAXM to run 2 of these emulators, allocating ~4096 MB (a third more than necessary) is a safe bet.
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 64bit and latest eclipse.
One minute after I launch the emulator, the memory usage keeps increasing all the way to 1000 MB. can anyone tell me why?
I limited the memory of emulator to 512mb, but didn't help.
Sounds like a memory leak, you should report it to the emulators buglist. Leaks happen when a resource is not closed or deleted during a process's run time.