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by habosa 3562 days ago
I spend about 80% of my day in Android Studio and It's definitely resource hungry. On my brand new MBP 13" with 16GB RAM and an i7 processor it can still make the whole thing stutter when compiling a medium to large project.

At work my desktop can handle it, but that thing has pretty unrealistic specs.
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AstralStorm 3562 days ago
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.

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Aaargh20318 3562 days ago
I gave Android Studio 8GB of heap space to play with, and it still manages to run out. WTF.
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