What is the cause of Android Studio's emulator being slow to save state?

Question

My Android Studio emulator is very slow to turn off.

When I try to shut down the emulator, I am always greeted with a dialog box stating

Do you want to save the current state for the next quick boot?Note: Recent saves seem to have been slow.

My emulator configuration is the following

• Device: Pixel 2 XL API P
• RAM: 6144 MB
• VM Heap: 256 MB
• Internal Storage: 4096 MB
• SD Card: 100 MB

What could be the cause of the slow emulator shut down?

Answer 1

The cause was the large amount of allocated RAM, as noted by Uriel Frankel. I halved the amount of RAM to 3 GB and the warning went away.