Android -- how does one filter console spam from Eclipse LogCat?

Question

The default Eclipse LogCat window contains a lot of console spam from the VM, etc. How does one remove these messages? It seems that the only filters now are to filter for an expression, not filter out spam.

Answer 1

Also if you want to filter log messages that you are not interested in then the silent option (S) for logcat's "filter_spec" can be used.

For example if you want to filter the Dalvik VM's log messsages like

D/dalvikvm(28039): GC_CONCURRENT freed 473K, 7% free 9503K/10180K, paused 2ms+3ms, total 22ms

then you may use

adb logcat dalvikvm:S