[Soot-list] How to Speed up Flowdroid!

[Bodden, Eric]

Hi Modhi.

With the current implementation 4GB is just way too little. For the larger Android applications we frequently exceed 500GB and more of memory. You might try with the least precise settings but with 4GB this is likely not going to work either.

We are working on lowering memory consumption but it's not easy and takes time.

Best wishes,
Eric

On 16.09.2014, at 19:35, Modhi Alsobiehy <m99m20 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Flowdroid users,
> 
> I need to run flowdroid from command line to analyze 30+ of the top downloaded apps and it is taking a lot of time to run - 15+ hours!- for not so big apks- 5 to 16MB- 
> To prevent any out of memory errors and speed up the process i am using these options: -Xmx4g and --nopaths
> Yet it keeps running and running and not showing any results - seems stuck after a while!-
> From your experience with Flowdroid, what are the best practices that speed up the process?
> Are you aware of any specific system requirements that could help?
> 
> Your quick response is highly recommended!
> 
> -Best,
> Modhi
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