GC stands for garbage-collector, which collects unused objects during runtime of your app.
GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC: Means that the VM is trying to reduce the amount of memory used collectable objects, to make room for non-collectable objects.
GC_FOR_MALLOC: Means that the GC was triggered because there wasn't enough memory left on the heap to perform an allocation. Might be triggered when new objects are being created.
GC_CONCURRENT: Triggered when the heap has reached a certain amount of objects to collect.
I am guessing that the 38% free means that 38% of the heap is unused. 8772K would be the size of the used memory on the heap and 14087K would be the size of the heap.
I don´t know, sorry.
Please note that all of this information is based on a post from Robert on a similiar question posted here on stackoverflow. All credit (as long as this is correct) goes to Robert.
GC_HPROF_DUMP_HEAP - If you dump heap by clicking the "dump heap" button from DDMS or programatically
GC_EXPLICIT - If you call System.gc()
Amount Freed
E.g. freed 2125K
Self explanatory
Heap Statistics
E.g. 47% free 6214K/11719K
These numbers reflect conditions after the GC ran. The "47% free" and 6214K reflect the current heap usage. The 11719K represents the total heap size. From what I can tell, the heap can grow/shrink, so you will not necessarily have an OutOfMemoryError if you hit this limit.
External Memory Statistics
E.g external 7142K/8400K
Note: This might only exist in pre-Honeycomb versions of Android (pre 3.0).
Before Honeycomb, bitmaps are allocated external to your VM (e.g. Bitmap.createBitmap() allocates the bitmap externally and only allocates a few dozen bytes on your local heap). Other examples of external allocations are for java.nio.ByteBuffers.
Pause Time
If it's a concurrent GC event, there will be two times listed. One is for a pause before the GC, one is for a pause when the GC is mostly done.E.g.paused 3ms+5ms
For non-concurrent GC events, there is only one pause time and it's typically much bigger.E.g.paused 87ms
down voteI was also looking for this information.GC stands for garbage-collector, which collects unused objects during runtime of your app.GC_EXTERNAL_ALLOC: Means that the VM is try