# Stressing memory on Android

DevFeed: [Stressing memory on Android](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/stressing-memory-on-android-28536.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.amanjeet.me/stressing-memory-on-android/>)

Author: Amanjeet Singh Gurtatta

Published: 2021-10-15T19:58:26Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Amanjeet Singh](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/amanjeet-singh.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/x86.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [crashes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crashes.md>), [devices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devices.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [mobile-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile-performance.md>), [native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/native.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [stress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stress.md>), [stresstest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stresstest.md>), [test](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/test.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/x86.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Android memory pressure can affect application processes, including native-memory risks and process killing by LMKD. It introduces stressapptest as a tool for reproducing memory pressure on test devices and validating instrumentation and crash-related behavior.

## Source excerpt

This post talks about stressing memory on any android device and what happens when device is under memory pressure.