JEP 271: Unified GC Logging - First pre-review

Staffan Friberg sfriberg at cloudera.com
Wed Oct 28 15:52:50 UTC 2015


Missed that one, and probably dating the JDKs I'm analyzing... ;)

Any reason for it not being documented "-XX:+PrintGCID" [1]?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/unix/java.html

//Staffan

On 10/28/2015 01:12 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
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> On 2015-10-27 16:51, Kirk Pepperdine wrote:
>>> On Oct 27, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Staffan Friberg <sfriberg at cloudera.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, think I got confused by the GC id being printed. I guess that is 
>>> new in JDK 9 EA?
>> It is a recent addition to GC logs.
>
> The GC Id has been available since some JDK 8 update.
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> It has always been on by default in JDK 9.
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> So, it is not that recent. It was pushed one and a half years ago.
>
> Bengt
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kirk
>>
>




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