Android :: Opengl - Unable To Get Steady Frame Rate Due To GC

I've been playing with OpenGL but am unable to get a steady framerate due to GC. When rendering 100 tiles each frame (in ortho mode), the GC needs to recover ~22000 objects every 3 seconds or so. Each collection is taking around 110 ms. Of course this means quite a framerate dip.

... D/dalvikvm( 9837): GC freed 21841 objects / 524272 bytes in 113ms D/dalvikvm( 9837): GC freed 21841 objects / 524272 bytes in 113ms D/dalvikvm( 9837): GC freed 21841 objects / 524272 bytes in 113ms D/dalvikvm( 9837): GC freed 21841 objects / 524272 bytes in 114ms ...

The rendering loop I tested with is not making any objects and is very simple;

while (super.running) { gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, tex); for(x = 0 ; x < 100; x++) { gl.glVertexPointer(2, GL10.GL_FIXED, 0, tileCoords[x]); gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FIXED, 0, tileTexCoords[x]); gl.glDrawArrays(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4); } egl.eglSwapBuffers(dpy, surface);