title: Android Emulator: Failed to allocate memory: 8 even with 8MB RAM
body: <p>I'm trying to start an emulator, but I keep getting the error <code>Failed to allocate memory: 8</code>. </p>
  
  <p>There are some solutions to this problem, setting the RAM from 1024 to 512, but when I even set it to 8 it still crashes with this error!</p>
  
  <p>What should I do?</p>
  
  <p>Screenshot of the settings:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/eogCn.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Here the error message Windows gives of the crashed emulator-arm.exe:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
    Application Name: emulator-arm.exe
    Application Version:  0.0.0.0
    Application Timestamp:    4fe779fb
    Fault Module Name:    emulator-arm.exe
    Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
    Fault Module Timestamp:   4fe779fb
    Exception Code:   40000015
    Exception Offset: 0014428e
    OS Version:   6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
    Locale ID:    1043
    Additional Information 1: ea2b
    Additional Information 2: ea2b4716fbf9f89aacc15214fb1537bb
    Additional Information 3: 8d2f
    Additional Information 4: 8d2f162ccf8522e475fc4fbe036a6efa
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The last time I checked and the emulator worked was before updating to ADT 20 and before deleting all old AVD's.</p>