Android studio: AVD ram size not changing?

Question

I am using Android Studio 1.3.2. When I run the app, I get the following event log:

f:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\emulator.exe -avd Nexus_One_API_23 -netspeed full -netdelay none

emulator: WARNING: Increasing RAM size to 1GB

emulator: device fd:728

HAXM is not working and emulator runs in emulation mode

emulator: The memory needed by this AVD exceeds the max specified in your HAXM configuration.

emulator: AVD      RAM size = 1024 MB

emulator: HAXM max RAM size = 768 MB

emulator: You might want to adjust your AVD RAM size and/or HAXM configuration to run in fast virt mode.

creating window 77 81 298 496

emulator: emulator window was out of view and was recentered

emulator: UpdateChecker: skipped version check.

I've already tried increasing the RAM size of AVD Nexus One to 512 MB and 768 MB. The same event log occurs for both.

try running HAXM from extras folder in your SDK and increasing RAM for it. — Rahul Tiwari, Oct 02 '15 at 06:37
Why you are not using Genymotion instead of default avd : https://www.genymotion.com/#!/ OR check out this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16732021/why-emulator-is-very-slow-in-android-studio — Haresh Chhelana, Oct 02 '15 at 07:18
@rahul - i dont have the limit upto 1024 mb for HAXm as i hv only 2gb of ram . — YaSh Chaudhary, Oct 02 '15 at 13:48
then please try [genymotion](https://www.genymotion.com/#!/) as suggested in comment above. — Rahul Tiwari, Oct 02 '15 at 13:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '15 at 18:21

You can downgrade the Intel x86 Atom System Image to API-19 instead of API 21/22/23 so as to use less RAM space. You can find the config in the config.ini file, and set the RAM size to 512 by hw.ramSize=512.

I had tried Image with API-21/22/23. Even I had set ramSize=256 in config.ini, or add option to change the memory size, after the command: emulator -memory 256 -avd [<avd_name>], it still shows: emulator: WARNING: Increasing RAM size to 1GB

Android studio: AVD ram size not changing?

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