diff --git a/cmd/harmony/main.go b/cmd/harmony/main.go
index 27731b7d6..3d50b8201 100644
--- a/cmd/harmony/main.go
+++ b/cmd/harmony/main.go
@@ -122,12 +122,6 @@ var (
 		"Do not propose view change (testing only)")
 )
 
-// Constants for GC.
-const (
-	// Run garbage collector every 30 minutes.
-	gcTime = 30 * time.Minute
-)
-
 func initSetup() {
 	if *versionFlag {
 		printVersion(os.Args[0])
@@ -199,22 +193,10 @@ func initSetup() {
 
 	// Set up manual call for garbage collection.
 	if *enableGC {
-		maybeCallGCPeriodically()
+		memprofiling.MaybeCallGCPeriodically()
 	}
 }
 
-// Run GC manually every 30 minutes. This is one of the options to mitigate the OOM issue.
-func maybeCallGCPeriodically() {
-	go func() {
-		for {
-			select {
-			case <-time.After(gcTime):
-				runtime.GC()
-			}
-		}
-	}()
-}
-
 func createGlobalConfig() *nodeconfig.ConfigType {
 	var err error
 	var myShardID uint32
diff --git a/internal/memprofiling/lib.go b/internal/memprofiling/lib.go
index 73e913a99..3d15786c0 100644
--- a/internal/memprofiling/lib.go
+++ b/internal/memprofiling/lib.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"reflect"
+	"runtime"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -18,9 +19,11 @@ const (
 	MemProfilingPortDiff = 1000
 	// Constants of for scanning mem size.
 	memSizeScanTime = 30 * time.Second
+	// Run garbage collector every 30 minutes.
+	gcTime = 10 * time.Minute
 )
 
-// MemProfiling is the struct of MemProfiling.
+// MemProfiling is the struct to watch objects for memprofiling.
 type MemProfiling struct {
 	h              *memsizeui.Handler
 	s              *http.Server
@@ -88,3 +91,32 @@ func (m *MemProfiling) PeriodicallyScanMemSize() {
 		}
 	}()
 }
+
+// MaybeCallGCPeriodically runs GC manually every gcTime minutes. This is one of the options to mitigate the OOM issue.
+func MaybeCallGCPeriodically() {
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-time.After(gcTime):
+				PrintMemUsage("mem stats before GC")
+				runtime.GC()
+				PrintMemUsage("mem stats after GC")
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
+// PrintMemUsage prints memory usage.
+func PrintMemUsage(msg string) {
+	var m runtime.MemStats
+	runtime.ReadMemStats(&m)
+	utils.GetLogInstance().Info(msg,
+		"alloc", bToMb(m.Alloc),
+		"totalalloc", bToMb(m.TotalAlloc),
+		"sys", bToMb(m.Sys),
+		"numgc", m.NumGC)
+}
+
+func bToMb(b uint64) uint64 {
+	return b / 1024 / 1024
+}