Hello guys. I'm occassionally tripping the jni global reference limit for the android emulator. I'm trying to store around 2000 words along with definitions in my application and it's failing at either of two spots: if I use DOM to parse the xml file with all those references it fails when DOM pulls the tree into memory. If I use SAX it fails when I get to around the 2000th element.
Does anyone have a link to how I can disable the check (I understand it doesn't exist on the actual machines and I am trying to persist 2000 small objects in memory)? If not, is there a good way to debug this? The objects that are building up are strings:
09-20 16:24:00.278: WARN/dalvikvm(625): 1879 of Ljava/lang/String; 28B (1877 unique)
I tried starting the avd with -nojni and using abd to set dalvik.vm.checkjni
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell getprop dalvik.vm.checkjni false
Although logcat shows "CheckJNI is Off", it stills dies a the globalref 2001 limit.
Also, after the parsing section, the memory winds up getting returned as I see: 09-20 16:31:23.238: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GC_EXPLICIT freed 1157 objects / 48208 bytes in 147ms 09-20 16:31:23.258: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 1799 09-20 16:31:23.278: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 1699 09-20 16:31:23.287: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 1599 09-20 16:31:23.309: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 1499 09-20 16:31:23.328: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 1399 09-20 16:31:23.338: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 1299 09-20 16:31:23.367: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 1199 09-20 16:31:23.367: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 1099 09-20 16:31:23.398: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 999 09-20 16:31:23.398: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 899 09-20 16:31:23.408: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 799 09-20 16:31:23.418: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 699 09-20 16:31:23.418: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 599 09-20 16:31:23.437: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 499 09-20 16:31:23.447: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 399 09-20 16:31:23.447: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 299 09-20 16:31:23.469: DEBUG/dalvikvm(654): GREF has decreased to 199
So I don't think it's my hashmap holding the word objects that is actually the problem. The only idea I have left is to cut the xml file into multiples, but that seems like a might inelegant solution.
Thanks a lot!