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<h2 id="ViewingAllocations">Viewing Overall Memory Allocations</h2>

<p>For further analysis, you may want to observe how that your app's memory is

divided between different categories, which you can do with the <code>adb meminfo</code> data.</p>

<p>For further analysis, you may want to observe how your app's memory is

divided between different types of RAM allocation with the

following <a href="{@docRoot}tools/help/adb.html">adb</a> command:</p>

<p>When talking about how much RAM your app is using with this data, the key metrics

discussed below are:</p>

<pre class="no-pretty-print">

adb shell dumpsys meminfo <package_name>

</pre>

<p>The output lists all of your app's current allocations, measured in kilobytes.</p>

<p>When inspecting this information, you should be familiar with the

following types of allocation:</p>

<dl>

<dt>Private (Clean and Dirty) RAM</dt>

actual RAM weight of a process and for comparison against the RAM use of other processes and the

total available RAM.</p>

<p>You can look at the memory use of your app (measured in kilobytes) with the

following adb command:</p>

<pre class="no-pretty-print">

adb shell dumpsys meminfo <package_name>

</pre>

<p>For example, below is the the output for Gmail’s process on a tablet device. There is a lot of

information here, but key points for discussion are highlighted in different colors.</p>

information here, but key points for discussion are listed below.</p>

<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> The information you see may vary slightly from what is shown

here, as some details of the output differ across platform versions.</p>