虛擬機提供了 -XX: +PrintGCDetails這個收集器日志參數,告訴虛擬機在發生垃圾收集行為時打印內存回收日志,並在進程退出的時候輸出當前的內存各區域分配情況。
故根據這個情況,在IDEA中查看GC日志的步驟:
1.打開idea中的run選項卡中的Edit Configurations。之后,便是在剛剛打開的Run/Debug Configurations中點擊左上角的加號,然后選"Application"

2.在左邊詳細信息中,將Main class設置為想要查看GC日志的類

3.在下面的VM options中輸入-XX:+PrintGCDetails,最后點擊OK保存設置即可。
例子:
public class ReferenceCountingGC { public Object instance = null; private static final int _1MB = 1024 * 1024; private byte[] bigSize = new byte[2 * _1MB]; public static void main(String[] args) { ReferenceCountingGC objA = new ReferenceCountingGC(); ReferenceCountingGC objB = new ReferenceCountingGC(); objA.instance = objB; objB.instance = objA; System.gc(); } }
輸出:
[GC (System.gc()) [PSYoungGen: 6763K->4872K(38400K)] 6763K->4880K(125952K), 0.0293377 secs] [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs] [Full GC (System.gc()) [PSYoungGen: 4872K->0K(38400K)] [ParOldGen: 8K->4721K(87552K)] 4880K->4721K(125952K), [Metaspace: 3435K->3435K(1056768K)], 0.0040781 secs] [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.01, real=0.00 secs] Heap PSYoungGen total 38400K, used 998K [0x00000000d5b00000, 0x00000000d8580000, 0x0000000100000000) eden space 33280K, 3% used [0x00000000d5b00000,0x00000000d5bf9b38,0x00000000d7b80000) from space 5120K, 0% used [0x00000000d7b80000,0x00000000d7b80000,0x00000000d8080000) to space 5120K, 0% used [0x00000000d8080000,0x00000000d8080000,0x00000000d8580000) ParOldGen total 87552K, used 4721K [0x0000000081000000, 0x0000000086580000, 0x00000000d5b00000) object space 87552K, 5% used [0x0000000081000000,0x000000008149c710,0x0000000086580000) Metaspace used 3447K, capacity 4496K, committed 4864K, reserved 1056768K class space used 376K, capacity 388K, committed 512K, reserved 1048576K
