OPPO Kernel Craftsman

Jan 10, 2020 · Fundamentals

Unveiling Android’s dumpsys meminfo: How It Works and Interpreting Its Output

This article explains how the Android dumpsys meminfo command retrieves process memory data, describes the three data sources (smaps parsing, IPC via binder/pipe, and memtrack.vendor_xxx.so), and shows how to map the raw fields to meaningful Java, native, graphics, and system memory categories for performance analysis.