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update jre requirements (1.7 -> 1.8)
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chewiebug committed Jan 31, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ generated by Sun / Oracle, IBM, HP and BEA Java Virtual Machines. It
is free software released under GNU LGPL.

You can start GCViewer (gui) by simply double-clicking on gcviewer-1.3x.jar
or running java -jar gcviewer-1.3x.jar (it needs a java 1.7 vm to run).
or running java -jar gcviewer-1.3x.jar (it needs a java 1.8 vm to run).

For a cmdline based report summary just type:
java -jar gcviewer-1.3x.jar gc.log summary.csv [chart.png] [-t PLAIN|CSV|CSV_TS|SIMPLE|SUMMARY]
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- HP-UX JDK 1.2/1.3/1.4.x with the option -Xverbosegc
- BEA JRockit 1.4.2/1.5/1.6 with the option -verbose:memory [-Xverbose:gcpause,gcreport] [-Xverbosetimestamp]

Best results are achieved with: -Xloggc:<file> -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps
Best results are achieved with: -Xloggc:<file> -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps.
A few other options are supported, but most of the information generated is ignored by GCViewer
(the javadoc introduction of
https://github.com/chewiebug/GCViewer/blob/master/src/main/java/com/tagtraum/perf/gcviewer/imp/DataReaderSun1_6_0.java
shows the details).

Hendrik Schreiber wrote GCViewer up to 1.29. What you are seeing here is based
on his very good work.
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