Java process memory usage keeps increasing infinitely

Question

Preconditions:

• PC with 16 Gb of RAM
• JDK 1.8.x installed on Ubuntu 16.10 x64.
• a standard Spring-based web application, that is deployed on Tomcat

Answer 1

Based on Occam's razor: couldn't it be that you have somewhere a memory leak (i.e., "unintentional object retentions" a'la Effective Java Item 6)?