Rolling garbage collector logs in java

Question

Is it possible to do a rolling of garbage collector logs in Sun JVM?

Currently I generate logs using:

-XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:         


        

Answer 1

Have you tried this new options?

I tried jdk7u7, jdk7u6 and jdk6u35 like this:

java -Xloggc:gc.log -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+UseGCLogRotation -XX:NumberOfGClogFiles=3 -XX:GCLogFileSize=10M

but with every version I'm seeing this error:

Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Bugfix #6941923 for 7u2 is referenced here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/2col/7u2bugfixes-1394661.html