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AstralStorm on Sept 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android Studio 2.2

It is not the IDE per se (300 MB RSS or so), but Java allocating some 2 GB heap per process, which also includes gradle daemon and compilers.

This can easily eat a bunch of ram, making the OS swap. Seems OS X has extra bad policy of swapping.

Aaargh20318 on Sept 20, 2016 [–]

I gave Android Studio 8GB of heap space to play with, and it still manages to run out. WTF.

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