I am trying to download an image using a web service. The actual image stream is delivered as a part of the response string. I am running this request in a background process using AsyncTask. After the thread starts to receive the actual byte stream the Memory heap is getting increased. I am putting the log below.
08-22 12:26:45.131: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 2322 objects / 190832 bytes in 39ms
08-22 12:26:47.231: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 1352 objects / 409784 bytes in 29ms
08-22 12:26:47.381: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 625 objects / 219384 bytes in 31ms
08-22 12:26:47.621: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 1036 objects / 336544 bytes in 29ms
08-22 12:26:47.621: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 3.413MB for 334198-byte allocation
08-22 12:26:47.671: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 42ms
08-22 12:26:47.941: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 1651 objects / 506808 bytes in 31ms
08-22 12:26:47.951: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 3.672MB for 501292-byte allocation
08-22 12:26:47.991: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 39ms
08-22 12:26:49.701: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 2255 objects / 749472 bytes in 28ms
08-22 12:26:49.701: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 4.071MB for 751934-byte allocation
08-22 12:26:49.741: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 37ms
08-22 12:26:51.561: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 2731 objects / 1027912 bytes in 28ms
08-22 12:26:51.711: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 587 objects / 103544 bytes in 31ms
08-22 12:26:51.711: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 4.669MB for 1127896-byte allocation
08-22 12:26:51.761: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 43ms
08-22 12:26:52.801: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 3872 objects / 1486920 bytes in 31ms
08-22 12:26:53.011: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 963 objects / 196184 bytes in 30ms
08-22 12:26:53.011: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 5.565MB for 1691840-byte allocation
08-22 12:26:53.051: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 40ms
08-22 12:26:54.291: VERBOSE/AlarmManager(103): Alarm triggering: Alarm{4669d808 type 0 com.facebook.katana}
08-22 12:26:54.561: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 5670 objects / 2174152 bytes in 28ms
08-22 12:26:54.656: ERROR/ApiMethod.onHttpOperationComplete(586): FacebookApiException: 102/The session has been invalidated because the user has changed the password.
08-22 12:26:54.691: INFO/LSState(103): EventReceiver:android.intent.action.NOTIFICATION_UPDATE
08-22 12:26:54.711: VERBOSE/AlarmManager(103): Adding Alarm{46661060 type 0 com.facebook.katana} Aug 22 12:27:54 pm
08-22 12:26:55.151: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 1963 objects / 365552 bytes in 45ms
08-22 12:26:55.161: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 6.909MB for 2537756-byte allocation
08-22 12:26:55.201: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 39ms
08-22 12:26:56.961: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 8165 objects / 3209680 bytes in 35ms
08-22 12:26:57.601: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 3189 objects / 596336 bytes in 40ms
08-22 12:26:57.611: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 8.927MB for 3806630-byte allocation
08-22 12:26:57.651: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 38ms
08-22 12:26:58.461: VERBOSE/AlarmManager(103): Alarm triggering: Alarm{46935248 type 0 com.facebook.katana}
08-22 12:26:58.851: ERROR/ApiMethod.onHttpOperationComplete(586): FacebookApiException: 102/The session has been invalidated because the user has changed the password.
08-22 12:26:58.911: INFO/LSState(103): EventReceiver:android.intent.action.NOTIFICATION_UPDATE
08-22 12:26:58.931: VERBOSE/AlarmManager(103): Adding Alarm{469006d0 type 0 com.facebook.katana} Aug 22 12:27:28 pm
08-22 12:27:00.041: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 11558 objects / 4635672 bytes in 72ms
08-22 12:27:01.021: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 5947 objects / 1072128 bytes in 30ms
08-22 12:27:01.041: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 11.951MB for 5709940-byte allocation
08-22 12:27:01.111: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 64ms
08-22 12:27:06.171: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 10917 objects / 5903536 bytes in 30ms
08-22 12:27:08.861: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 10522 objects / 1912024 bytes in 30ms
08-22 12:27:08.881: INFO/dalvikvm-heap(31088): Grow heap (frag case) to 13.472MB for 5401196-byte allocation
08-22 12:27:08.941: DEBUG/dalvikvm(31088): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 0 objects / 0 bytes in 61ms
On the fifth line u can see the heap size is 3.413 MB and on second
last line it grows up to 13.472MB.
This is the code I am using to fetch data inside asyncTask class.
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
RestClient client = new RestClient(CALL_URL);
client.AddParam("token", params[0]);
client.AddParam("filename", params[3]);
try {
client.Execute(RestClient.RequestMethod.GET);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String response = client.getResponse();
return response;
}
These are the methods inside the RestClient class which actually deals with the httprequest
private void executeRequest(HttpUriRequest request, String url)
{
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse httpResponse;
try {
httpResponse = client.execute(request);
responseCode = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
message = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getReasonPhrase();
HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();
if (entity != null) {
InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
response = convertStreamToString(instream);
// Closing the input stream will trigger connection release
instream.close();
}
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
What could be the possible reason. How can I effectively do this with out taking this much memory in android?
I’m not familiar with Android, but you may store content on the filesystem instead of memory.