Running GC Log Analyzer

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To run the GC Log Analyzer, use the following command in any terminal or command prompt window:

 java -jar GCLogAnalyzer2.jar gc.log

To run GC Log Analyzer in a non-GUI mode and create an HTML output, use the following as an example:

 java -jar GCLogAnalyzer2.jar --generate-html ./output-html ./gc.log

This generates ./output-html/all-graphs.html. If you need a batch of json files with data from your <logfile>, use:

 java -jar GCLogAnalyzer2.jar [--generate-html <dir> [--resize WxH]] [--dump-raw-data <dir>] gc.log

Usage Recommendations

For big log files, consider increasing the size of the Java heap twice as much as the log file size. For example, if you have a 3 GB file, use -Xmx6g to start the GC Log Analyzer.
To open gc.log directly from the command line, run:
```
 java -jar GCLogAnalyzer2.jar gc.log
```