dumpsys
dumpsys
is a tool that runs on Android devices and provides information about system services. You can call dumpsys
from the command line using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to get diagnostic output for all system services running on a connected device. This output is typically more verbose than you may want, so use the command line options described below to get output for only the system services you're interested in. This page also describes how to use dumpsys
to accomplish common tasks, such as inspecting input, RAM, battery, or network diagnostics.
Syntax
The general syntax for using dumpsys
is as follows:
adb shell dumpsys [-t timeout] [--help | -l | --skip services | service [arguments] | -c | -h]
To get a diagnostic output for all system services for your connected device, simply run adb shell dumpsys
. However, this outputs far more information than you would typically want. For more manageable output, specify the service you want to examine by including it in the command. For example, the command below provides system data for input components, such as touchscreens or built-in keyboards:
adb shell dumpsys input
For a complete list of system services that you can use with dumpsys
, use the following command:
adb shell dumpsys -l
Command line options
The following table lists the available options when using dumpsys
.
Option | Description |
---|---|
-t timeout |
Specifies the timeout period in seconds. When not specified, the default value is 10 seconds. |
--help |
Prints out help text for the dumpsys tool. |
-l |
Outputs a complete list of system services that you can use with dumpsys . |
--skipservices |
Specifies the services that you do not want to include in the output. |
service[arguments] |
Specifies the service that you want to output. Some services may allow you to pass optional arguments. You can learn about these optional arguments by passing the -h option with the service, as shown below:
adb shell dumpsys procstats -h |
-c |
When specifying certain services, append this option to output data in a machine-friendly format. |
-h |
For certain services, append this option to see help text and additional options for that service. |
Inspect input diagnostics
Specifying the input
service, as shown below, dumps the state of the system’s input devices, such as keyboards and touchscreens, and the processing of input events.
adb shell dumpsys input
The output varies depending on the version of Android running on the connected device. The sections below describe the type of information you typically see.
Event hub state
The following is a sample of what you might see when inspecting the Event Hub State of the input diagnostics:
INPUT MANAGER (dumpsys input) Event Hub State: BuiltInKeyboardId: -2 Devices: -1: Virtual Classes: 0x40000023 Path: Descriptor: a718a782d34bc767f4689c232d64d527998ea7fd Location: ControllerNumber: 0 UniqueId: Identifier: bus=0x0000, vendor=0x0000, product=0x0000, version=0x0000 KeyLayoutFile: /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl KeyCharacterMapFile: /system/usr/keychars/Virtual.kcm ConfigurationFile: HaveKeyboardLayoutOverlay: false 1: msm8974-taiko-mtp-snd-card Headset Jack Classes: 0x00000080 Path: /dev/input/event5 Descriptor: c8e3782483b4837ead6602e20483c46ff801112c Location: ALSA ControllerNumber: 0 UniqueId: Identifier: bus=0x0000, vendor=0x0000, product=0x0000, version=0x0000 KeyLayoutFile: KeyCharacterMapFile: ConfigurationFile: HaveKeyboardLayoutOverlay: false 2: msm8974-taiko-mtp-snd-card Button Jack Classes: 0x00000001 Path: /dev/input/event4 Descriptor: 96fe62b244c555351ec576b282232e787fb42bab Location: ALSA ControllerNumber: 0 UniqueId: Identifier: bus=0x0000, vendor=0x0000, product=0x0000, version=0x0000 KeyLayoutFile: /system/usr/keylayout/msm8974-taiko-mtp-snd-card_Button_Jack.kl KeyCharacterMapFile: /system/usr/keychars/msm8974-taiko-mtp-snd-card_Button_Jack.kcm ConfigurationFile: HaveKeyboardLayoutOverlay: false 3: hs_detect Classes: 0x00000081 Path: /dev/input/event3 Descriptor: 485d69228e24f5e46da1598745890b214130dbc4 Location: ControllerNumber: 0 UniqueId: Identifier: bus=0x0000, vendor=0x0001, product=0x0001, version=0x0001 KeyLayoutFile: /system/usr/keylayout/hs_detect.kl KeyCharacterMapFile: /system/usr/keychars/hs_detect.kcm ConfigurationFile: HaveKeyboardLayoutOverlay: false ...
Input reader state
The InputReader
is responsible for decoding input events from the kernel. Its state dump shows information about how each input device is configured and recent state changes that have occurred, such as key presses or touches on the touch screen.
The following sample shows the output for a touch screen. Note the information about the resolution of the device and the calibration parameters that were used.
Input Reader State ... Device 6: Melfas MMSxxx Touchscreen IsExternal: false Sources: 0x00001002 KeyboardType: 0 Motion Ranges: X: source=0x00001002, min=0.000, max=719.001, flat=0.000, fuzz=0.999 Y: source=0x00001002, min=0.000, max=1279.001, flat=0.000, fuzz=0.999 PRESSURE: source=0x00001002, min=0.000, max=1.000, flat=0.000, fuzz=0.000 SIZE: source=0x00001002, min=0.000, max=1.000, flat=0.000, fuzz=0.000 TOUCH_MAJOR: source=0x00001002, min=0.000, max=1468.605, flat=0.000, fuzz=0.000 TOUCH_MINOR: source=0x00001002, min=0.000, max=1468.605, flat=0.000, fuzz=0.000 TOOL_MAJOR: source=0x00001002, min=0.000, max=1468.605, flat=0.000, fuzz=0.000 TOOL_MINOR: source=0x00001002, min=0.000, max=1468.605, flat=0.000, fuzz=0.000 Touch Input Mapper: Parameters: GestureMode: spots DeviceType: touchScreen AssociatedDisplay: id=0, isExternal=false OrientationAware: true Raw Touch Axes: X: min=0, max=720, flat=0, fuzz=0, resolution=0 Y: min=0, max=1280, flat=0, fuzz=0, resolution=0 Pressure: min=0, max=255, flat=0, fuzz=0, resolution=0 TouchMajor: min=0, max=30, flat=0, fuzz=0, resolution=0 TouchMinor: unknown range ToolMajor: unknown range ToolMinor: unknown range Orientation: unknown range Distance: unknown range TiltX: unknown range TiltY: unknown range TrackingId: min=0, max=65535, flat=0, fuzz=0, resolution=0 Slot: min=0, max=9, flat=0, fuzz=0, resolution=0 Calibration: touch.size.calibration: diameter touch.size.scale: 10.000 touch.size.bias: 0.000 touch.size.isSummed: false touch.pressure.calibration: amplitude touch.pressure.scale: 0.005 touch.orientation.calibration: none touch.distance.calibration: none SurfaceWidth: 720px SurfaceHeight: 1280px SurfaceOrientation: 0 Translation and Scaling Factors: XScale: 0.999 YScale: 0.999 XPrecision: 1.001 YPrecision: 1.001 GeometricScale: 0.999 PressureScale: 0.005 SizeScale: 0.033 OrientationCenter: 0.000 OrientationScale: 0.000 DistanceScale: 0.000 HaveTilt: false TiltXCenter: 0.000 TiltXScale: 0.000 TiltYCenter: 0.000 TiltYScale: 0.000 Last Button State: 0x00000000 Last Raw Touch: pointerCount=0 Last Cooked Touch: pointerCount=0
At the end of the input reader state dump there is some information about global configuration parameters, such as the tap interval.
Configuration: ExcludedDeviceNames: [] VirtualKeyQuietTime: 0.0ms PointerVelocityControlParameters: scale=1.000, lowThreshold=500.000, highThreshold=3000.000, acceleration=3.000 WheelVelocityControlParameters: scale=1.000, lowThreshold=15.000, highThreshold=50.000, acceleration=4.000 PointerGesture: Enabled: true QuietInterval: 100.0ms DragMinSwitchSpeed: 50.0px/s TapInterval: 150.0ms TapDragInterval: 300.0ms TapSlop: 20.0px MultitouchSettleInterval: 100.0ms MultitouchMinDistance: 15.0px SwipeTransitionAngleCosine: 0.3 SwipeMaxWidthRatio: 0.2 MovementSpeedRatio: 0.8 ZoomSpeedRatio: 0.3
Input dispatcher state
The InputDispatcher
is responsible for sending input events to applications. As shown in the sample output below, its state dump shows information about which window is being touched, the state of the input queue, whether an ANR is in progress, and so on.
Input Dispatcher State: DispatchEnabled: 1 DispatchFrozen: 0 FocusedApplication: <null> FocusedWindow: name='Window{3fb06dc3 u0 StatusBar}' TouchStates: <no displays touched> Windows: 0: name='Window{357bbbfe u0 SearchPanel}', displayId=0, paused=false, hasFocus=false, hasWallpaper=false, visible=false, canReceiveKeys=false, flags=0x01820100, type=0x000007e8, layer=211000, frame=[0,0][1080,1920], scale=1.000000, touchableRegion=[0,0][1080,1920], inputFeatures=0x00000000, ownerPid=22674, ownerUid=10020, dispatchingTimeout=5000.000ms 1: name='Window{3b14c0ca u0 NavigationBar}', displayId=0, paused=false, hasFocus=false, hasWallpaper=false, visible=false, canReceiveKeys=false, flags=0x01840068, type=0x000007e3, layer=201000, frame=[0,1776][1080,1920], scale=1.000000, touchableRegion=[0,1776][1080,1920], inputFeatures=0x00000000, ownerPid=22674, ownerUid=10020, dispatchingTimeout=5000.000ms 2: name='Window{2c7e849c u0 com.vito.lux}', displayId=0, paused=false, hasFocus=false, hasWallpaper=false, visible=true, canReceiveKeys=false, flags=0x0089031a, type=0x000007d6, layer=191000, frame=[-495,-147][1575,1923], scale=1.000000, touchableRegion=[-495,-147][1575,1923], inputFeatures=0x00000000, ownerPid=4697, ownerUid=10084, dispatchingTimeout=5000.000ms ... MonitoringChannels: 0: 'WindowManager (server)' RecentQueue: length=10 MotionEvent(deviceId=4, source=0x00001002, action=2, flags=0x00000000, metaState=0x00000000, buttonState=0x00000000, edgeFlags=0x00000000, xPrecision=1.0, yPrecision=1.0, displayId=0, pointers=[0: (335.0, 1465.0)]), policyFlags=0x62000000, age=217264.0ms MotionEvent(deviceId=4, source=0x00001002, action=1, flags=0x00000000, metaState=0x00000000, buttonState=0x00000000, edgeFlags=0x00000000, xPrecision=1.0, yPrecision=1.0, displayId=0, pointers=[0: (335.0, 1465.0)]), policyFlags=0x62000000, age=217255.7ms MotionEvent(deviceId=4, source=0x00001002, action=0, flags=0x00000000, metaState=0x00000000, buttonState=0x00000000, edgeFlags=0x00000000, xPrecision=1.0, yPrecision=1.0, displayId=0, pointers=[0: (330.0, 1283.0)]), policyFlags=0x62000000, age=216805.0ms ... PendingEvent: <none> InboundQueue: <empty> ReplacedKeys: <empty> Connections: 0: channelName='WindowManager (server)', windowName='monitor', status=NORMAL, monitor=true, inputPublisherBlocked=false OutboundQueue: <empty> WaitQueue: <empty> 1: channelName='278c1d65 KeyguardScrim (server)', windowName='Window{278c1d65 u0 KeyguardScrim}', status=NORMAL, monitor=false, inputPublisherBlocked=false OutboundQueue: <empty> WaitQueue: <empty> 2: channelName='357bbbfe SearchPanel (server)', windowName='Window{357bbbfe u0 SearchPanel}', status=NORMAL, monitor=false, inputPublisherBlocked=false OutboundQueue: <empty> WaitQueue: <empty> ... AppSwitch: not pending 7: channelName='2280455f com.google.android.gm/com.google.android.gm.ConversationListActivityGmail (server)', windowName='Window{2280455f u0 com.google.android.gm/com.google.android.gm.ConversationListActivityGmail}', status=NORMAL, monitor=false, inputPublisherBlocked=false OutboundQueue: <empty> WaitQueue: <empty> 8: channelName='1a7be08a com.android.systemui/com.android.systemui.recents.RecentsActivity (server)', windowName='Window{1a7be08a u0 com.android.systemui/com.android.systemui.recents.RecentsActivity EXITING}', status=NORMAL, monitor=false, inputPublisherBlocked=false OutboundQueue: <empty> WaitQueue: <empty> 9: channelName='3b14c0ca NavigationBar (server)', windowName='Window{3b14c0ca u0 NavigationBar}', status=NORMAL, monitor=false, inputPublisherBlocked=false OutboundQueue: <empty> WaitQueue: <empty> ... Configuration: KeyRepeatDelay: 50.0ms KeyRepeatTimeout: 500.0ms
Things to check for
The following is a list of things to consider when inspecting the various output for the input
service:
Event hub state:
- All of the input devices you expect are present.
- Each input device has an appropriate key layout file, key character map file, and input device configuration file. If the files are missing or contain syntax errors, then they will not be loaded.
- Each input device is classified correctly. The bits in the
Classes
field correspond to flags inEventHub.h
, such asINPUT_DEVICE_CLASS_TOUCH_MT
.
- The
BuiltInKeyboardId
is correct. If the device does not have a built-in keyboard, then the id must be-2
. Otherwise, it should be the id of the built-in keyboard. - If you observe that the
BuiltInKeyboardId
is not-2
but it should be, then you are missing a key character map file for a special function keypad somewhere. Special function keypad devices should have key character map files that contain just the linetype SPECIAL_FUNCTION
(that's what in thetuna-gpio-keykad.kcm
file we see mentioned above).
Input reader state:
- All of the expected input devices are present.
- Each input device is configured correctly. In particular, check that the touch screen and joystick axes are correct.
Input dispatcher state:
- All input events are processed as expected.
- After touching the touch screen and running
dumpsys
at the same time, theTouchStates
line correctly identifies the window that you are touching.
Test UI performance
Specifying the gfxinfo
service provides output with performance information relating to frames of animation that are occurring during the recording phase. The following command uses gfxinfo
to gather UI performance data for a specified package name:
adb shell dumpsys gfxinfo package-name
You can also include the framestats
option to provide even more detailed frame timing information from recent frames, so that you can track down and debug problems more accurately, shown below:
adb shell dumpsys gfxinfo package-name framestats
To learn more about using gfxinfo
and framestats
to integrate UI performance measurements into your testing practices, go to Testing UI performance.
Inspect network diagnostics
Specifying the netstats
service provides network usage statistics collected since the previous device booted up. To output additional information, such as detailed unique user ID (UID) information, include the detail
option, as follows:
adb shell dumpsys netstats detail
The output varies depending on the version of Android running on the connected device. The sections below describe the type of information you typically see.
Active interfaces and active UID interfaces
The following sample output lists the active interfaces and active UID interfaces of the connected device. In most cases, the information for active interfaces and active UID interfaces is the same.
Active interfaces: iface=wlan0 ident=[{type=WIFI, subType=COMBINED, networkId="Guest"}] Active UID interfaces: iface=wlan0 ident=[{type=WIFI, subType=COMBINED, networkId="Guest"}]
'Dev' and 'Xt' statistics
The following is a sample output for the Dev statistics section:
Dev stats: Pending bytes: 1798112 History since boot: ident=[{type=WIFI, subType=COMBINED, networkId="Guest", metered=false}] uid=-1 set=ALL tag=0x0 NetworkStatsHistory: bucketDuration=3600 st=1497891600 rb=1220280 rp=1573 tb=309870 tp=1271 op=0 st=1497895200 rb=29733 rp=145 tb=85354 tp=185 op=0 st=1497898800 rb=46784 rp=162 tb=42531 tp=192 op=0 st=1497902400 rb=27570 rp=111 tb=35990 tp=121 op=0 Xt stats: Pending bytes: 1771782 History since boot: ident=[{type=WIFI, subType=COMBINED, networkId="Guest", metered=false}] uid=-1 set=ALL tag=0x0 NetworkStatsHistory: bucketDuration=3600 st=1497891600 rb=1219598 rp=1557 tb=291628 tp=1255 op=0 st=1497895200 rb=29623 rp=142 tb=82699 tp=182 op=0 st=1497898800 rb=46684 rp=160 tb=39756 tp=191 op=0 st=1497902400 rb=27528 rp=110 tb=34266 tp=120 op=0
UID stats
The following is a sample of detailed statistics of each UID.
UID stats: Pending bytes: 744 Complete history: ident=[[type=MOBILE_SUPL, subType=COMBINED, subscriberId=311111...], [type=MOBILE, subType=COMBINED, subscriberId=311111...]] uid=10007 set=DEFAULT tag=0x0 NetworkStatsHistory: bucketDuration=7200000 bucketStart=1406167200000 activeTime=7200000 rxBytes=4666 rxPackets=7 txBytes=1597 txPackets=10 operations=0 ident=[[type=WIFI, subType=COMBINED, networkId="MySSID"]] uid=10007 set=DEFAULT tag=0x0 NetworkStatsHistory: bucketDuration=7200000 bucketStart=1406138400000 activeTime=7200000 rxBytes=17086802 rxPackets=15387 txBytes=1214969 txPackets=8036 operations=28 bucketStart=1406145600000 activeTime=7200000 rxBytes=2396424 rxPackets=2946 txBytes=464372 txPackets=2609 operations=70 bucketStart=1406152800000 activeTime=7200000 rxBytes=200907 rxPackets=606 txBytes=187418 txPackets=739 operations=0 bucketStart=1406160000000 activeTime=7200000 rxBytes=826017 rxPackets=1126 txBytes=267342 txPackets=1175 operations=35
To find the UID for your app, run this command: adb shell dumpsys package your-package-name
. Then look for the line labeled userId
.
For example, to find network usage for the app 'com.example.myapp', run the following command:
adb shell dumpsys package com.example.myapp | grep userId
the output should be similar to the following:
userId=10007 gids=[3003, 1028, 1015]
Using the sample dump above, look for lines that have uid=10007
. Two such lines exist—the first indicates a mobile connection and the second indicates a Wi-Fi connection. Below each line, you can see the following information for each two-hour window (which bucketDuration
specifies in milliseconds):
set=DEFAULT
indicates foreground network usage, whileset=BACKGROUND
indicates background usage.set=ALL
implies both.tag=0x0
indicates the socket tag associated with the traffic.rxBytes
andrxPackets
represent received bytes and received packets in the corresponding time interval.txBytes
andtxPackets
represent sent (transmitted) bytes and sent packets in the corresponding time interval.
Inspect battery diagnostics
Specifying the batterystats
service generates interesting statistical data about battery usage on a device, organized by unique user ID (UID). To learn how to use dumpsys
to test your app for Doze and App Standby, go toTesting with Doze and App Standby.
The command for batterystats
is as follows:
adb shell dumpsys batterystats options
To see a list of additional options available to batterystats
, include the -h
option. The example below outputs battery usage statistics for a specified app package since the device was last charged:
adb shell dumpsys batterystats --charged package-name
The output typically includes the following:
- History of battery-related events
- Global statistics for the device
- Approximate power use per UID and system component
- Per-app mobile milliseconds per packet
- System UID aggregated statistics
- App UID aggregated statistics
To learn more about using batterystats
and generating an HTML visualization of the output, which makes it easier to understand and diagnose battery-related issues, read Profile battery usage with Batterystats and Battery Historian.
Inspecting machine-friendly output
You can generate batterystats
output in machine-readable CSV format by using the following command:
adb shell dumpsys batterystats --checkin
The following is an example of the output you should see:
9,0,i,vers,11,116,K,L 9,0,i,uid,1000,android 9,0,i,uid,1000,com.android.providers.settings 9,0,i,uid,1000,com.android.inputdevices 9,0,i,uid,1000,com.android.server.telecom ... 9,0,i,dsd,1820451,97,s-,p- 9,0,i,dsd,3517481,98,s-,p- 9,0,l,bt,0,8548446,1000983,8566645,1019182,1418672206045,8541652,994188 9,0,l,gn,0,0,666932,495312,0,0,2104,1444 9,0,l,m,6794,0,8548446,8548446,0,0,0,666932,495312,0,697728,0,0,0,5797,0,0 ...
Battery-usage observations may be per-UID or system-level; data is selected for inclusion based on its usefulness in analyzing battery performance. Each row represents an observation with the following elements:
- A dummy integer
- The user ID associated with the observation
- The aggregation mode:
- "i" for information not tied to charged/uncharged status.
- "l" for --charged (usage since last charge).
- "u" for --unplugged (usage since last unplugged). Deprecated in Android 5.1.1.
- Section identifier, which determines how to interpret subsequent values in the line.
The table below describes the various section identifiers you may see:
Section identifier | Description | Remaining fields |
---|---|---|
vers |
Version |
checkin version, parcel version, start platform version, end platform version |
uid |
UID |
uid, package name |
apk |
APK |
wakeups, APK, service, start time, starts, launches |
pr |
Process |
process, user, system, foreground, starts |
sr |
Sensor |
sensor number, time, count |
vib |
Vibrator |
time, count |
fg |
Foreground |
time, count |
st |
State Time |
foreground, active, running |
wl |
Wake lock |
wake lock, full time, 'f', full count, partial time, 'p', partial count, window time, 'w', window count |
sy |
Sync |
sync, time, count |
jb |
Job |
job, time, count |
kwl |
Kernel Wake Lock |
kernel wake lock, time, count |
wr |
Wakeup Reason |
wakeup reason, time, count |
nt |
Network |
mobile bytes RX, mobile bytes TX, Wi-Fi bytes RX, Wi-Fi bytes TX, mobile packets RX, mobile packets TX, Wi-Fi packets RX, Wi-Fi packets TX, mobile active time, mobile active count |
ua |
User Activity |
other, button, touch |
bt |
Battery |
start count, battery realtime, battery uptime, total realtime, total uptime, start clock time, battery screen off realtime, battery screen off uptime |
dc |
Battery Discharge |
low, high, screen on, screen off |
lv |
Battery Level |
start level, current level |
wfl |
Wi-Fi |
full Wi-Fi lock on time, Wi-Fi scan time, Wi-Fi running time, Wi-Fi scan count, Wi-Fi idle time, Wi-Fi receive time, Wi-Fi transmit time |
gwfl |
Global Wi-Fi |
Wi-Fi on time, Wi-Fi running time, Wi-Fi idle time, Wi-Fi receive time, Wi-Fi transmit time, Wi-Fi power (mAh) |
gble |
Global Bluetooth |
BT idle time, BT receive time, BT transmit time, BT power (mAh) |
m |
Misc |
screen on time, phone on time, full wakelock time total, partial wakelock time total, mobile radio active time, mobile radio active adjusted time, interactive time, power save mode enabled time, connectivity changes, device idle mode enabled time, device idle mode enabled count, device idling time, device idling count, mobile radio active count, mobile radio active unknown time |
gn |
Global Network |
mobile RX total bytes, mobile TX total bytes, Wi-Fi RX total bytes, Wi-Fi TX total bytes, mobile RX total packets, mobile TX total packets, Wi-Fi RX total packets, Wi-Fi TX total packets |
br |
Screen Brightness |
dark, dim, medium, light, bright |
sst |
Signal Scanning Time |
signal scanning time |
sgt |
Signal Strength Time |
none, poor, moderate, good, great |
sgc |
Signal Strength Count |
none, poor, moderate, good, great |
dct |
Data Connection Time |
none, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA, EVDO_0, EVDO_A, 1xRTT, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, IDEN, EVDO_B, LTE, EHRPD, HSPAP, other |
dcc |
Data Connection Count |
none, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA, EVDO_0, EVDO_A, 1xRTT, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, IDEN, EVDO_B, LTE, EHRPD, HSPAP, other |
wst |
Wi-Fi State Time |
off, off scanning, on no networks, on disconnected, on connected STA, on connected P2P, on connected STA P2P, soft AP |
wsc |
Wi-Fi State Count |
off, off scanning, on no networks, on disconnected, on connected STA, on connected P2P, on connected STA P2P, soft AP |
wsst |
Wi-Fi Supplicant State Time |
invalid, disconnected, interface disabled, inactive, scanning, authenticating, associating, associated, four-way handshake, group handshake, completed, dormant, uninitialized |
wssc |
Wi-Fi Supplicant State Count |
invalid, disconnected, interface disabled, inactive, scanning, authenticating, associating, associated, four-way handshake, group handshake, completed, dormant, uninitialized |
wsgt |
Wi-Fi Signal Strength Time |
none, poor, moderate, good, great |
wsgc |
Wi-Fi Signal Strength Count |
none, poor, moderate, good, great |
bst |
Bluetooth State Time |
inactive, low, med, high |
bsc |
Bluetooth State Count |
inactive, low, med, high |
pws |
Power Use Summary |
battery capacity, computed power, minimum drained power, maximum drained power |
pwi |
Power Use Item |
label, mAh |
dsd |
Discharge Step |
duration, level, screen, power-save |
csd |
Charge Step |
duration, level, screen, power-save |
dtr |
Discharge Time Remaining |
battery time remaining |
ctr |
Charge Time Remaining |
charge time remaining |
Note: Prior to Android 6.0, power use for Bluetooth radio, cellular radio, and Wi-Fi was tracked in the m (Misc) section category. In Android 6.0 and higher, power use for these components is tracked in the pwi (Power Use Item) section with individual labels (wifi, blue, cell) for each component.
View memory allocations
You can inspect your app's memory usage in one of two ways: over a period of time using procstats
or at a particular snapshot in time using meminfo
. The sections below show you how to use either method.
procstats
procstats
makes it possible to see how your app is behaving over time—including how long it runs in the background and how much memory it uses during that time. It helps you quickly find inefficiencies and misbehaviors in your app, such as memory leaks, that can affect how it performs, especially when running on low-memory devices. Its state dump displays statistics about every application’s runtime, proportional set size (PSS) and unique set size (USS).
To get application memory usage stats over the last three hours, in human-readable format, run the following command:
adb shell dumpsys procstats --hours 3
As can be seen in the example below, the output displays what percentage of time the application was running, and the PSS and USS as minPSS-avgPSS-maxPSS/minUSS-avgUSS-maxUSS
over the number of samples.
AGGREGATED OVER LAST 3 HOURS: * com.android.systemui / u0a20 / v22: TOTAL: 100% (109MB-126MB-159MB/108MB-125MB-157MB over 18) Persistent: 100% (109MB-126MB-159MB/108MB-125MB-157MB over 18) * com.android.nfc / 1027 / v22: TOTAL: 100% (17MB-17MB-17MB/16MB-16MB-16MB over 18) Persistent: 100% (17MB-17MB-17MB/16MB-16MB-16MB over 18) * android.process.acore / u0a4 / v22: TOTAL: 100% (14MB-15MB-15MB/14MB-14MB-14MB over 20) Imp Fg: 100% (14MB-15MB-15MB/14MB-14MB-14MB over 20) ... * com.coulombtech / u0a106 / v26: TOTAL: 0.01% Receiver: 0.01% (Cached): 21% (4.9MB-5.0MB-5.2MB/3.8MB-3.9MB-4.1MB over 2) * com.softcoil.mms / u0a86 / v32: TOTAL: 0.01% (Cached): 0.25% * com.udemy.android / u0a91 / v38: TOTAL: 0.01% Receiver: 0.01% (Cached): 0.75% (9.8MB-9.8MB-9.8MB/8.5MB-8.5MB-8.5MB over 1) ... Run time Stats: SOff/Norm: +32m52s226ms SOn /Norm: +2h10m8s364ms Mod : +17s930ms TOTAL: +2h43m18s520ms Memory usage: Kernel : 265MB (38 samples) Native : 73MB (38 samples) Persist: 262MB (90 samples) Top : 190MB (325 samples) ImpFg : 204MB (569 samples) ImpBg : 754KB (345 samples) Service: 93MB (1912 samples) Receivr: 227KB (1169 samples) Home : 66MB (12 samples) LastAct: 30MB (255 samples) CchAct : 220MB (450 samples) CchCAct: 193MB (71 samples) CchEmty: 182MB (652 samples) Cached : 58MB (38 samples) Free : 60MB (38 samples) TOTAL : 1.9GB ServRst: 50KB (278 samples) Start time: 2015-04-08 13:44:18 Total elapsed time: +2h43m18s521ms (partial) libart.so
meminfo
You can record a snapshot of how your app's memory is divided between different types of RAM allocation with the following command:
adb shell dumpsys meminfo package_name|pid [-d]
The -d flag prints more info related to Dalvik and ART memory usage.
The output lists all of your app's current allocations, measured in kilobytes.
When inspecting this information, you should be familiar with the following types of allocation:
- Private (Clean and Dirty) RAM
- This is memory that is being used by only your process. This is the bulk of the RAM that the system can reclaim when your app’s process is destroyed. Generally, the most important portion of this is private dirtyRAM, which is the most expensive because it is used by only your process and its contents exist only in RAM so can’t be paged to storage (because Android does not use swap). All Dalvik and native heap allocations you make will be private dirty RAM; Dalvik and native allocations you share with the Zygote process are shared dirty RAM.
- Proportional Set Size (PSS)
- This is a measurement of your app’s RAM use that takes into account sharing pages across processes. Any RAM pages that are unique to your process directly contribute to its PSS value, while pages that are shared with other processes contribute to the PSS value only in proportion to the amount of sharing. For example, a page that is shared between two processes will contribute half of its size to the PSS of each process.
A nice characteristic of the PSS measurement is that you can add up the PSS across all processes to determine the actual memory being used by all processes. This means PSS is a good measure for the actual RAM weight of a process and for comparison against the RAM use of other processes and the total available RAM.
For example, below is the output for Map’s process on a Nexus 5 device. There is a lot of information here, but key points for discussion are listed below.
adb shell dumpsys meminfo com.google.android.apps.maps -d
Note: The information you see might vary slightly from what is shown here, because some details of the output differ across platform versions.
** MEMINFO in pid 18227 [com.google.android.apps.maps] ** Pss Private Private Swapped Heap Heap Heap Total Dirty Clean Dirty Size Alloc Free ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ Native Heap 10468 10408 0 0 20480 14462 6017 Dalvik Heap 34340 33816 0 0 62436 53883 8553 Dalvik Other 972 972 0 0 Stack 1144 1144 0 0 Gfx dev 35300 35300 0 0 Other dev 5 0 4 0 .so mmap 1943 504 188 0 .apk mmap 598 0 136 0 .ttf mmap 134 0 68 0 .dex mmap 3908 0 3904 0 .oat mmap 1344 0 56 0 .art mmap 2037 1784 28 0 Other mmap 30 4 0 0 EGL mtrack 73072 73072 0 0 GL mtrack 51044 51044 0 0 Unknown 185 184 0 0 TOTAL 216524 208232 4384 0 82916 68345 14570 Dalvik Details .Heap 6568 6568 0 0 .LOS 24771 24404 0 0 .GC 500 500 0 0 .JITCache 428 428 0 0 .Zygote 1093 936 0 0 .NonMoving 1908 1908 0 0 .IndirectRef 44 44 0 0 Objects Views: 90 ViewRootImpl: 1 AppContexts: 4 Activities: 1 Assets: 2 AssetManagers: 2 Local Binders: 21 Proxy Binders: 28 Parcel memory: 18 Parcel count: 74 Death Recipients: 2 OpenSSL Sockets: 2
Here is an older dumpsys on Dalvik of the gmail app:
** MEMINFO in pid 9953 [com.google.android.gm] ** Pss Pss Shared Private Shared Private Heap Heap Heap Total Clean Dirty Dirty Clean Clean Size Alloc Free ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ Native Heap 0 0 0 0 0 0 7800 7637(6) 126 Dalvik Heap 5110(3) 0 4136 4988(3) 0 0 9168 8958(6) 210 Dalvik Other 2850 0 2684 2772 0 0 Stack 36 0 8 36 0 0 Cursor 136 0 0 136 0 0 Ashmem 12 0 28 0 0 0 Other dev 380 0 24 376 0 4 .so mmap 5443(5) 1996 2584 2664(5) 5788 1996(5) .apk mmap 235 32 0 0 1252 32 .ttf mmap 36 12 0 0 88 12 .dex mmap 3019(5) 2148 0 0 8936 2148(5) Other mmap 107 0 8 8 324 68 Unknown 6994(4) 0 252 6992(4) 0 0 TOTAL 24358(1) 4188 9724 17972(2)16388 4260(2)16968 16595 336 Objects Views: 426 ViewRootImpl: 3(8) AppContexts: 6(7) Activities: 2(7) Assets: 2 AssetManagers: 2 Local Binders: 64 Proxy Binders: 34 Death Recipients: 0 OpenSSL Sockets: 1 SQL MEMORY_USED: 1739 PAGECACHE_OVERFLOW: 1164 MALLOC_SIZE: 62
In general, be concerned with only the Pss Total
and Private Dirty
columns. In some cases, the Private Clean
and Heap Alloc
columns also offer interesting data. More information about the different memory allocations (the rows) you should observe follows:
Dalvik Heap
- The RAM used by Dalvik allocations in your app. The
Pss Total
includes all Zygote allocations (weighted by their sharing across processes, as described in the PSS definition above). ThePrivate Dirty
number is the actual RAM committed to only your app’s heap, composed of your own allocations and any Zygote allocation pages that have been modified since forking your app’s process from Zygote.Note: On newer platform versions that have the
Dalvik Other
section, thePss Total
andPrivate Dirty
numbers for Dalvik Heap do not include Dalvik overhead such as the just-in-time compilation (JIT) and GC bookkeeping, whereas older versions list it all combined underDalvik
.The
Heap Alloc
is the amount of memory that the Dalvik and native heap allocators keep track of for your app. This value is larger thanPss Total
andPrivate Dirty
because your process was forked from Zygote and it includes allocations that your process shares with all the others. .so mmap
and.dex mmap
- The RAM being used for mapped
.so
(native) and.dex
(Dalvik or ART) code. ThePss Total
number includes platform code shared across apps; thePrivate Clean
is your app’s own code. Generally, the actual mapped size will be much larger—the RAM here is only what currently needs to be in RAM for code that has been executed by the app. However, the .so mmap has a large private dirty, which is due to fix-ups to the native code when it was loaded into its final address. .oat mmap
- This is the amount of RAM used by the code image which is based off of the preloaded classes which are commonly used by multiple apps. This image is shared across all apps and is unaffected by particular apps.
.art mmap
- This is the amount of RAM used by the heap image which is based off of the preloaded classes which are commonly used by multiple apps. This image is shared across all apps and is unaffected by particular apps. Even though the ART image contains
Object
instances, it does not count towards your heap size. .Heap
(only with -d flag)- This is the amount of heap memory for your app. This excludes objects in the image and large object spaces, but includes the zygote space and non-moving space.
.LOS
(only with -d flag)- This is the amount of RAM used by the ART large object space. This includes zygote large objects. Large objects are all primitive array allocations larger than 12KB.
.GC
(only with -d flag)- This is the overhead cost for garbage collection. There is not really any way to reduce this overhead.
.JITCache
(only with -d flag)- This is the amount of memory used by the JIT data and code caches. Typically, this is zero since all of the apps will be compiled at installed time.
.Zygote
(only with -d flag)- This is the amount of memory used by the zygote space. The zygote space is created during device startup and is never allocated into.
.NonMoving
(only with -d flag)- This is the amount of RAM used by the ART non-moving space. The non-moving space contains special non-movable objects such as fields and methods. You can reduce this section by using fewer fields and methods in your app.
.IndirectRef
(only with -d flag)- This is the amount of RAM used by the ART indirect reference tables. Usually this amount is small, but if it is too high, it might be possible to reduce it by reducing the number of local and global JNI references used.
Unknown
- Any RAM pages that the system could not classify into one of the other more specific items. Currently, this contains mostly native allocations, which cannot be identified by the tool when collecting this data due to Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). Like the Dalvik heap, the
Pss Total
for Unknown takes into account sharing with Zygote, andPrivate Dirty
is unknown RAM dedicated to only your app. TOTAL
- The total Proportional Set Size (PSS) RAM used by your process. This is the sum of all PSS fields above it. It indicates the overall memory weight of your process, which can be directly compared with other processes and the total available RAM.
The
Private Dirty
andPrivate Clean
are the total allocations within your process, which are not shared with other processes. Together (especiallyPrivate Dirty
), this is the amount of RAM that will be released back to the system when your process is destroyed. Dirty RAM is pages that have been modified and so must stay committed to RAM (because there is no swap); clean RAM is pages that have been mapped from a persistent file (such as code being executed) and so can be paged out if not used for a while.
ViewRootImpl
- The number of root views that are active in your process. Each root view is associated with a window, so this can help you identify memory leaks involving dialogs or other windows.
AppContexts
andActivities
- The number of app
Context
andActivity
objects that currently live in your process. This can help you to quickly identify leakedActivity
objects that can’t be garbage collected due to static references on them, which is common. These objects often have many other allocations associated with them, which makes them a good way to track large memory leaks.
Note: A View
or Drawable
object also holds a reference to the Activity
that it's from, so holding a View
orDrawable
object can also lead to your app leaking an Activity
.