原文:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gctuning/generations.html#sthref16

以下是文中提到JDK1.8 的GC日志格式解释

 ## Measurement

Throughput and footprint are best measured using metrics particular to the application. For example, the throughput of a web server may be tested using a client load generator, whereas the footprint of the server may be measured on the Solaris operating system using the `pmap` command. However, pauses due to garbage collection are easily estimated by inspecting the diagnostic output of the virtual machine itself.

The command-line option `-verbose:gc` causes information about the heap and garbage collection to be printed at each collection. For example, here is output from a large server application:

[GC 325407K->83000K(776768K), 0.2300771 secs]
[GC 325816K->83372K(776768K), 0.2454258 secs]
[Full GC 267628K->83769K(776768K), 1.8479984 secs]


The output shows two minor collections followed by one major collection. The numbers before and after the arrow (for example, `325407K->83000K` from the first line) indicate the combined size of live objects before and after garbage collection, respectively. After minor collections, the size includes some objects that are garbage (no longer alive) but cannot be reclaimed. These objects are either contained in the tenured generation or referenced from the tenured generation.

The next number in parentheses (for example, `(776768K)` again from the first line) is the committed size of the heap: the amount of space usable for Java objects without requesting more memory from the operating system. Note that this number only includes one of the survivor spaces. Except during a garbage collection, only one survivor space will be used at any given time to store objects.

The last item on the line (for example, `0.2300771 secs`) indicates the time taken to perform the collection, which is in this case approximately a quarter of a second.

The format for the major collection in the third line is similar.