Question

I am trying to find the relative memory usage of each running application and service using the dalvikPss value as suggested here

As suggested there, I need to sum up all the PSS values of running processes. My question is, how do get the pss values of all running processes ?

My understanding is that services and tasks in Android are linked to processes. Is this understanding correct ?

If so, would summing the PSS values of all processes returned from ActivityManager.getRunningAppProcesses give me the total PSS of all running processes (services and tasks included) ?

Answer 1

for getting PSS values of all running processes:
use this:

ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) context.getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);  
List<RunningAppProcessInfo> runningAppProcesses = activityManager.getRunningAppProcesses();  
Map<Integer, String> pidMap = new TreeMap<Integer, String>();  
for (RunningAppProcessInfo runningAppProcessInfo : runningAppProcesses)  
{  
    pidMap.put(runningAppProcessInfo.pid, runningAppProcessInfo.processName);  
}  
Collection<Integer> keys = pidMap.keySet();  
for(int key : keys)  
{  
    int pids[] = new int[1];  
    pids[0] = key;  
    android.os.Debug.MemoryInfo[] memoryInfoArray = activityManager.getProcessMemoryInfo(pids);  
    for(android.os.Debug.MemoryInfo pidMemoryInfo: memoryInfoArray)  
    {  
        Log.i(TAG, String.format("** MEMINFO in pid %d [%s] **\n",pids[0],pidMap.get(pids[0])));  
        Log.i(TAG, " pidMemoryInfo.getTotalPrivateDirty(): " + pidMemoryInfo.getTotalPrivateDirty() + "\n");  
        Log.i(TAG, " pidMemoryInfo.getTotalPss(): " + pidMemoryInfo.getTotalPss() + "\n");  
        Log.i(TAG, " pidMemoryInfo.getTotalSharedDirty(): " + pidMemoryInfo.getTotalSharedDirty() + "\n");  
    }  
} 

OR you can also get PSS value using Runtime:

    final Process m_process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/system/bin/top -n 1");
    final StringBuilder sbread = new StringBuilder();
    BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new 
InputStreamReader(m_process.getInputStream()), 8192);