Calling procrank doesn't work on real devices

Question

according to a google io video about getting to know how much memory you app takes , you can use procrank and read the USS value of it.

i've tried it out on emulators (no matter which version i use - from 2.3.x to 4.1) and it works well , but running on an actual device , it didn't work (tested on galaxy s3 with android 4.0.4) . it's as if the command doesn't exist .

how could it be ? is there an alternative to get this USS value?

the question means this part of the session https://youtu.be/gbQb1PVjfqM?t=558 — Mohammed Elrashidy, Jan 19 '22 at 17:01

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 22 '12 at 10:34

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You can use dumpsys command

Steps:

issue command line: dumpsys meminfo packageName
The Private Dirty column is you wanted.

edited Sep 22 '12 at 10:34

biegleux

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answered Sep 04 '12 at 13:38

Nigel Ding

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are you sure ? is it exactly the same ? i mean , is it really the value which says : "the amount of bytes that will be freed when the process of this app will be killed" ? – android developer Sep 04 '12 at 17:19
what's the differents of procrank and dumpsys – Hugo Apr 28 '13 at 03:37

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '13 at 03:38

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U can also use

adb shell dumpsys meminfo

or

adb shell dumpsys meminfo  + pid

command

answered Apr 28 '13 at 03:38

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are you sure ? is it exactly the same ? i mean , is it really the value which says : "the amount of bytes that will be freed when the process of this app will be killed" ? – android developer Apr 28 '13 at 05:44

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '15 at 13:57

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adb shell dumpsys meminfo [pid] (Private Dirty + Private Clean)

is same as

procrank (USS)

answered Feb 25 '15 at 13:57

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Can you show some reference that says that it's the same? – android developer Feb 25 '15 at 15:54
I checked the actual output of both the commands to conclude that. Also some scattered references on web [here](http://soumya.co.in/wp/?p=74) `The Uss refers to the private pages of a process, which can be further exclusively divided into PrCl(clean ones) and PrDi(dirty ones)` and [here](http://roylee17.blogspot.kr/2010/06/memory-usage-estimation-on-android.html) `The important details are the memory used by USS (Private Dirty + Private Clean) and PSS total` – neel Feb 26 '15 at 05:33
Another reference can be found in this [stackexchange-question] (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33381/getting-information-about-a-process-memory-usage-from-proc-pid-smaps) `USS isn't reported in smaps, but indeed, it is the sum of private mappings`. – neel Feb 26 '15 at 05:53

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 26 '16 at 12:14

procrank and dumpsys meminfo is not the same command, because procrank can show more thread which is killed by accident.

First you shell get procrank, procmem, libpagemap.so from Google

Then do push like :

adb push procrank /system/xbin 
adb push procmem /system/xbin 
adb push libpagemap.so /system/lib

Last :

adb shell chmod 6755 /system/xbin/procrank 
adb shell chmod 6755 /system/xbin/procmem 
adb shell chmod 6755 /system/lib/libpagemap.so

Calling procrank doesn't work on real devices

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