Memory leak in a Java web application

Question

I have a Java web application running on Tomcat 7 that appears to have a memory leak. The average memory usage of the application increases linearly over time when under load (d

Answer 1

I removed the following JMX configuration from tomcat\bin\setenv.bat:

set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% 
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true 
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9090
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false"

I can't get detailed memory heap dumps anymore, but the memory profile looks much better:

24 hours later, the memory profile looks the same: