Rolling Java GC Logs November 05, 2012 - San Francisco, CA If you are running a java process, you probably want to keep track of what the garbage collector is doing. You can access this via jconsole or by logging the gc actions by adding: -Xloggc:gc.log -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps which logs to the ‘gc.log’ file. And for simple cases, that will pro