I am attempting to use Restlet for Android to query an OData data source. However, I am not impressed with its performance in both the emulator as well on a real device. I have the requests made in a wrapper `AsyncTask` to make the UI responsive but it still takes over 1 minute to finally return the objects.

I get plenty of these in the LogCat window:

```
10-04 18:20:41.667: DEBUG/dalvikvm(278): GC freed 7872 objects / 523928 bytes in 279ms

```

What can I do to speed up the queries?