How to enable Android Studio AVD to use only lesser number of CPUs than available on the computer

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To use only 2 cores of the CPU of the computer, do the following action after opening a terminal window in Linux, where Device10.avd is the Android 10 AVD created:

$ vi ~/.android/avd/Device10.avd/config.ini <enter>

Change the values in red for the below parameters in the file to those in blue as below.
hw.cpu.ncore=4

hw.cpu.ncore=2

Save the file and restart Android Studio. This should reduce the risk of the system crashing.

Published by Geetu R. Vaswani

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