Android studio takes too much memory

Solution 1:

I'm currently running Android Studio on Windows 8.1 machine with 6 gigs of RAM.

I found that disabling VCS in android studio and using an external program to handle VCS helped a lot. You can disable VCS by going to File->Settings->Plugins and disable the following:

• CVS Integration
• Git Integration
• GitHub
• Google Cloud Testing
• Google Cloud Tools Core
• Google Cloud Tools for Android Studio
• hg4idea
• Subversion Integration
• Mercurial Integration
• TestNG-J

Solution 2:

In my case, there were two main sources of memory hogging: the IDE and Gradle:

Android Studio (up to 1.5GB)

The IDE's JVM is configured to have a max heap size. You can see this in the lower-right corner of the main interface:

You can reduce this by editing the memory-related settings in the .vmoptions file. For example, I changed my max heap size to 512MB:

-Xmx512m

Unfortunately, I found that lowering this value increases the frequency of Android Studio temporarily freezing, perhaps to do its garbage collection.

Gradle (up to 1.5GB)

Gradle can also use a lot of RAM after developing for a while. Windows just shows it as Java(TM) Platform SE Binary:

You can fix this by changing the Gradle JVM options. You can do this on a per-user basis by editing gradle.properties:

1. Open the gradle.properties file, creating it if it doesn't exist:
   • Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gradle\gradle.properties
   • Linux/Mac: ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

2. Update the org.gradle.jvmargs property, creating it if necessary. I set mine to this:

   org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
   

I haven't noticed any difference in build performance for my small project with the max heap size set to 256MB (-Xmx256m).

Note that you might need to restart Android Studio so the old Gradle process is killed; otherwise you might end up with both running at the same time.

Emulator

Regarding the emulator taking up a lot of your RAM, your screenshot shows it taking about 800MB. You can choose how much RAM to allocate to the emulator:

1. Edit the AVD
2. Press Show Advanced Settings
3. Reduce the value of RAM

Solution 3:

You can speed up your Eclipse or Android Studio work, you just follow these:

• Use/open single project at a time
• clean your project after running your app in emulator every time
• use mobile/external device instead of emulator
• don't close emulator after using once, use same emulator for running app each time
• Disable VCS by using File->Settings->Plugins and disable the following things :
  1.CVS Integration
  2.Git Integration
  3.GitHub
  4.Google Cloud Tools for Android Studio
  5.Subversion Integration

I am also using Android Studio with 4-GB installed main memory but following these statements really boost my Android Studio performance.