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How do you simulate low memory in the Android emulator?

Is there an easy way to simulate low memory inside the emulator ? I'm interested to perform resource cleanups similar to this post

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Jacques René Mesrine Avatar asked Sep 27 '09 07:09

Jacques René Mesrine


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Invoke ulimit command from the shell.

ulimit -Sv 10000 

This will set current memory limit to 10 000 Kb, so that all apps invoked from this shell afterwards won't be able to access more memory.

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P Shved Avatar answered Oct 06 '22 09:10

P Shved