works fine on ubuntu here. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:14 AM, brian.schim...@googlemail.com < brian.schim...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi there, > > I know that many people are complaining about slow emulator > performance, and mostly it can't be helped because of slow hardware > and the fact that emulators somehow have to be slow by definition > because of the way they work. But something really puzzles me: > > I'm using a dual boot configuration with Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.04. > On XP, the emualtor is somehow slower than a real G1 device, but it's > completely ok. > > But on Ubuntu, the emulator is unusable slow. Note that other programs > run just fine under my ubuntu. I have no exact measurements, but I > think the emulator about 10 times slower than on Windows. Installing a > small app takes more than 2 minutes, starting an app sometimes takes > over 2 minutes, returning to the home screen takes up to 40 seconds, > and there is not a single click I can do that takes less than 2 > seconds to trigger some kind of reaction. I get around 2 fps at most, > no matter what I do. > > Both systems (of course) use the same hardware, and on both I'm using > SDK 1.6 with a 1.5 AVD without google additions, and the very same app > that I'm developing. > > I used to have a very old Graphics card that I had to access through > plain old VESA drivers on both XP and Ubuntu. > Now I'm on a new hardware which uses a proper driver to access the > graphics hardware, but the emulator on Ubuntu is still as slow as > before, so I think this is not the bottleneck. > > Also, I noticed that under heavy usage of the emulator, the usage of > my real CPU never went above 30%. > > Is there any explanation for this slowness on Ubuntu? Or even a way to > further investigate where the bottleneck might be? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
