# 使用 Homebrew 安装 gcviewer

查看 gcviewer 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:gcviewer
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gcviewer
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:gcviewer
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 1.37
- **来源摘要:** Java garbage collection visualization tool
- **主页:** <https://github.com/chewiebug/GCViewer>
- **最后更新:** 2026-05-25T22:03:14Z
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- gcviewer (别名)

## 安装行为

- Bottle: 不可用

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 1.37
## 项目历史与用法

GCViewer is a Java tool for visualizing and summarizing garbage-collection logs. It covers historical and modern JVM log formats from Sun/Oracle, IBM, HP, and BEA, and can be used either as a GUI application or from the command line.

### 项目历史

The current repository is a fork of tagtraum industries' GCViewer. Its GitHub metadata says tagtraum development stopped in 2008 and that this fork aimed to improve support for Sun/Oracle Java 1.6 and later garbage-collector logs, including G1. The README credits Hendrik Schreiber for GCViewer up to 1.29.

### 采用历史

GCViewer fits the Java operations era in which verbose GC logs were exchanged as files and interpreted offline. The changelog shows maintenance following JVM logging changes: G1 work in the 1.31 series, Maven Central publication in 1.33, command-line image/report generation, Java 8 updates, unified logging, Shenandoah, ZGC, and a 2026 update for newer parser cases.

### 使用方式

Users open or pass GC log files to GCViewer, then inspect charts, pause summaries, heap metrics, parser warnings, and exported summaries. The command-line mode can generate CSV-style reports and optional chart images, making it useful in scripted JVM performance investigations.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

GCViewer is notable because it packages years of JVM log-format drift into one small desktop-and-CLI artifact. It preserves support for vendor-era Java logs while continuing to parse newer OpenJDK unified logging, which is exactly the kind of compatibility surface package maintainers care about.

### 时间线

- 2008: Repository metadata says tagtraum development had stopped.
- 2011: GitHub records the chewiebug GCViewer repository creation.
- 2012: The 1.31 series adds G1 parser work and OS X bundle support.
- 2013: GCViewer 1.33 publishes to Maven Central and adds command-line image generation.
- 2019: GCViewer 1.36 adds unified logging support, Shenandoah, ZGC, and Go GC logging.
- 2026: GCViewer 1.37 is released with parser and UI updates.

### Related projects

- The original tagtraum GCViewer is the direct predecessor named by the project.
- Sun/Oracle HotSpot, OpenJDK, IBM JVM, HP-UX JVM, and BEA JRockit logs are supported input families.
- gchisto is referenced by the changelog as a related simple-GC-log export target.

### 来源

- <https://api.github.com/repos/chewiebug/GCViewer>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/chewiebug/GCViewer/releases>
- <https://github.com/chewiebug/GCViewer>
- <https://github.com/chewiebug/GCViewer/wiki>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chewiebug/GCViewer/master/README.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/chewiebug/GCViewer/Changelog.md>


## 安全说明

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger 风险:** 绿色 / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gcviewer.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gcviewer.yml)


## 来源

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph