Garbage collection logs

Question

In the following garbage collection logs:-
84818.180: [GC 84818.180: [ParNew: 159810K->11632K(172032K), 0.0475511 secs] 520283K->372704K(1024000K), 0.0477481 secs]
84874.024: [GC 84874.024: [ParNew: 159088K->14118K(172032K), 0.0552993 secs] 520160K->375190K(1024000K), 0.0554933 secs]how would you find out when the garbage collection cycle actually took place? i.e. absolute time

Answer 1

In the following garbage collection logs:-
84818.180: [GC 84818.180: [ParNew:
159810K->11632K(172032K), 0.0475511 secs]
520283K->372704K(1024000K), 0.0477481 secs]
84874.024: [GC 84874.024: [ParNew:
159088K->14118K(172032K), 0.0552993 secs]
520160K->375190K(1024000K), 0.0554933 secs]how would you find out when the garbage collection
cycle actually took place? i.e. absolute timeI normally try to update my posts in case somebody in future comes across the same question, he finds an answer to the problem as well and not just the problem. So what I found out was that in the above gc logs, 84818.180 would be the no. of seconds since the start of the appserver, and one would have to get that time from stderr.log file. So once you get that time from stderr log you need to add these sec to that time to get the absolute time. Its kind PIA but thats how it is, I am still not sure why they used this convention since time from start of the server would not mean anything for a developer analyzing the log files