I am getting occasional stuttering in my game that doesn't seem related to garbage collection. I instrumented my main rendering loop to figure out which part of my code this was happening in and discovered that it is happening randomly in all parts of my code. But it isn't accompanied by a any catlogs about gc.

The stutters are between 40-250 msecs long. Any time they happen, the glitch in the game is very noticable and is really ruining things.

Is this android services running in the background? Can I do anything to mitigate this? Any other ideas of what I can check for / do? Is this unavoidable?

Thanks,
Seed

Have you tried using Traceview to profile your code?

No, I have no experience with it. I will see if I can figure it out. The app runs exceedingly slow when debugging. Will this be an issue for traceview too?

You typically would not run traceview while debugging. It will show you how long you spend in each section of your code, and the debug process would mess that up. It will also show interactions between threads.

I assume you tried rebooting the phone, putting it in "Airplane Mode" (turn turn off radio stuff), closing widgets, and using a task manager to kill as many things as possible, right?

If so, and if it's hitching in openGL code, you could try caching state changes, and only sending state changes through that are new. Something like:

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public final class RenderState
{
  static int sTexture = -1;
  static GL10 sGL;

  final static void startRendering(GL10 gl)
  {
    sTexture = -1;
    sGL = gl;
  }

  final static void setTexture(int texture)
  {
    if (texture != texture)
    {
      sTexture = texture;
      sGL.glBindTexture(target, texture);
    }
  }

}


Did you get any further with this seed? I seem to be having a very similiar problem.

Thanks