Android java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

Question

when I download big data from the website, I got this error information:

I/global (20094): Default buffer size used in BufferedInputStream constructor. It would be better to be explicit if an 8k buffer is required. D/dalvikvm(20094): GC freed 6153 objects / 3650840 bytes in 335ms I/dalvikvm-heap(20094): Forcing collection of SoftReferences for 3599051-byte al location D/dalvikvm(20094): GC freed 320 objects / 11400 bytes in 144ms E/dalvikvm-heap(20094): Out of memory on a 3599051-byte allocation. I/dalvikvm(20094): "Thread-9" prio=5 tid=17 RUNNABLE I/dalvikvm(20094): | group="main" sCount=0 dsCount=0 s=0 obj=0x439b9480 I/dalvikvm(20094): | sysTid=25762 nice=0 sched=0/0 handle=4065496 

Can anybody help me?

Answer 1

Individual applications do not have access to all available device memory. If you are downloading a large data set, consider writing it to the SD card as you go, rather than trying to completely keep it in memory.