# GC logs on elasticsearch host

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gc-logs-on-elasticsearch-host/56580>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 28, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gc-logs-on-elasticsearch-host/56580 "2016-07-28T06:38:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![sunilmchaudhari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sunilmchaudhari/32/9475_2.png) [@sunilmchaudhari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilmchaudhari)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gc-logs-on-elasticsearch-host/56580/1 "2016-07-28T06:38:43Z")

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Hi,  
Can anybody help me to read and understand below logs?

```
2016-07-28T09:34:55.973+0300: 68361.921: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0003690 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0001850 seconds
2016-07-28T09:34:58.059+0300: 68364.007: [GC2016-07-28T09:34:58.059+0300: 68364.007: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 8716288 bytes, new threshold 6 (max 6)
- age 1: 5982224 bytes, 5982224 total
- age 2: 974168 bytes, 6956392 total
- age 3: 214296 bytes, 7170688 total
: 147860K->8990K(153344K), 0.0339550 secs] 706985K->568116K(6274432K), 0.0342020 secs] [Times: user=0.07 sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]

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br,  
Sunil

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**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gc-logs-on-elasticsearch-host/56580/2 "2017-07-05T22:32:18Z")

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