Android emulator uses 100% cpu even if nothing i running on it ?

Question

I have a celeron processor :/ and android emulator on eclipse uses 100% of cpu and hangs everything unless I kill it . I was just trying a hello android program from a book

Answer 1

As others have said, the solution is disabling sound. Unfortunately, in recent Android Studio releases (I'm using 1.4) the option to disable sound has been removed from the GUI. To disable sound you can do it either by launching the emulator from the command line with the -noaudio flag, or by editing the AVD's config file and setting the following parameters:

hw.audioInput=no
hw.audioOutput=no

On Linux, I found that file at ~/.android/avd/myAVD.avd/config.ini