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Android Memory Allocations

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Description

What I did:
- Created a new React Native project via the CLI
- Ran the app on a 5x+23 API Emulator via react-native run-android
- Opened the Android Monitors tab
What I expected:
- I expected the memory allocations to rise at app startup and then plateau.
What actually happens:
- Memory is slowly getting allocated even while the app is just sitting there without any user input.
- When the memory hits the allocated threshold a garbage collection occurs.
- Its good the memory can actually get garbage collected meaning there isn’t a memory leak.
- However why is memory always getting allocated??

Reproduction

I have a screen recording uploaded here: https://youtu.be/F3875gv6tAw

Solution

Figure out what is being allocated so often and stop it.
Is this related to debug builds only or also release builds?

Additional Information

React Native version: 0.37.0
Platform: Android (maybe others, untested)
Operating System: MacOS
Android OS: 23

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:11 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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stale[bot]commented, Dec 3, 2017

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Maybe the issue has been fixed in a recent release, or perhaps it is not affecting a lot of people. If you think this issue should definitely remain open, please let us know why. Thank you for your contributions.

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w3z315commented, Aug 28, 2017

This is still a thing, I’ve created a new project using react-native-create-project with these dependencies:

"react": "16.0.0-alpha.12", "react-native": "^0.47.2"

And it still allocates memory.

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