Android Question Used memory

[RB Smissaert]

Looking at used and available memory and using this code, copied from here:
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/memory-usage.97349/

Sub LogMemory
 
 Dim r As Reflector
 Dim iFreeMemory As Int
 Dim iMaxMemory As Int
 Dim iTotalMemory As Int
 Dim iUsedMemory   As Int
 Dim iTotalFreeMemory As Int

 Dim strPrompt As String

 r.Target = r.RunStaticMethod("java.lang.Runtime", "getRuntime", Null, Null)
 
 iFreeMemory = r.RunMethod("freeMemory") / (1024 * 1024)
 iMaxMemory = r.RunMethod("maxMemory") / (1024 * 1024)
 iTotalMemory = r.RunMethod("totalMemory") / (1024 * 1024)
 
 iUsedMemory   = iTotalMemory - iFreeMemory
 iTotalFreeMemory   = iMaxMemory - iUsedMemory
 
 strPrompt =   "Max Memory  = " & iMaxMemory & " Mb" &  _
                 CRLF & "Total Free        = " & iTotalFreeMemory & " Mb" & _
                 CRLF & "Total Memory = " & iTotalMemory & " Mb" & _      
                 CRLF & "Used Memory = " & iUsedMemory & " Mb" & _
                 CRLF & "Free Memory  = " & iFreeMemory& " Mb"       

 RunLog(strPrompt)
 
End Sub

I get these values:

*** Service (starter) Create ***
Max Memory = 256 Mb
Total Free = 254 Mb
Total Memory = 7 Mb
Used Memory = 2 Mb
Free Memory = 5 Mb

after application fully loaded:
Max Memory = 256 Mb
Total Free = 250 Mb
Total Memory = 11 Mb
Used Memory = 6 Mb
Free Memory = 5 Mb

The last 4 values can vary by a few Mb, this is after the app is fully loaded.

Now, I am not sure what the exact meaning is of these 5 values.
Could somebody explain this to me?

RBS

 

[emexes]

Well, that's some interesting stuff. On my usual phone here:

Max Memory seems to be the maximum amount of memory that the program can use, and if I Dim an array that exceeds it, then I get a beautiful java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. My test app has only 128 MB compared to your 256 MB.

Total Memory seems to be the current usage, but it doesn't go backwards if I Dim the array smaller (or perhaps Sleep(2222) is not long enough for the garbage collector to kick in). If I re-Dim the array back to a larger size, it reuses the memory that the garbage collector should have reclaimed, so: at least that works.

 

[Erel]

Which problem are you trying to solve with this code?

 

[RB Smissaert]

Which problem are you trying to solve with this code?

No particular problem. Just gaining more insight.

RBS

 

[Erel]

Tracking memory usage can be confusing.
Related tips:

1. 95% of the memory issues are related to large images (large dimensions, the file size doesn't matter).
2. If you are not experiencing memory errors then you probably don't need to worry about the memory usage.

 

[RB Smissaert]

I don't deal with large images, but could get out of memory errors when moving large recordsets to a flexible table. I am avoiding that by simply avoiding the table display if rs.rowcount x rs.columncount > X.

RBS