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emulator memory leak when GPU on using android.

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I find that the emulator's memory increase rapidly when check GPU on. You can do the reproduction as following:
1. Turn on GPU following http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#acceleration
2. Power on the emulator
3. Launch some apps by mouse, (i,e. launch Settings then Clock, and Settings then Clock ...)
4. Check the memory usage of emulator by top command on Ubuntu and ProcessExplorer on Windows

I found that the apps with property android:hardwareAccelerated="true" is more worse.

posted Sep 4, 2013 by Jagan Mishra

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