Memory Limit Wrong - Garmin Devices

I developed a Data Field with a memory footprint of 26.3kb. Was getting Out of Memory errors on the Garmin 520 (which the simulator says has a 26kb limit).

I was able to optimize the data field to 23.8kb (which I can see running it in the simulator against the Garmin 820). But it still aborts in the simulator and on the actual Garmin 520 device.

So, the actual memory limit is not 26kb, but, it appears to be 24kb. I further optimized it to 23.9kb and now it runs.

Just FYI in case the authors of the programmers guide and/or the eclipse plugin want to update the value from 26kb to 24kb.

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Are you looking at the memory usage on the bottom line of the sim, or the peak memory usage in the sim under file>view memory?

DaveBrillhart over 8 years ago

Bottom line of the sim.... thanks for the pointer to the peak memory usage. I'll check that.

Ahh. peak memory is at 25.8kb :-) the value at the bottom of the sim is 23.4kb. Possibly it would be best to display peak down at the bottom as well (eg: 23.4/25.8kb)

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Peak used to be on the bottom line, but was moved to view memory when info on current and max objects was added. What's on the bottom is the memory usage when your app is idle.