How to reduce the memory used by the android emulator?

android, android-emulator

Solution

Try this:

Open the Android Virtual device manager:

Click on a device and select edit:

and then on Hardware click new:

After that select the option Device ram size:

Then just put the value that you want and click on Edit AVD:

Hope that helps. Also as you may notice you can change other properties that might be useful.

Problem

Is there a way to reduce memory used by android emulator? When I turn on Resource Monitor, It commits over 800MB(I guess this is the reason for all my computer's lags)! My info: OS: Window 7, 2GB RAM, CPU core i3. Emulator: Device RAM size: 512MB, data partition size: 384MB, Skin: HVGA 480x320, SD Card: 4GiB.

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