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 would suggest to use memoryAnalyzer for analyzing your heap, it gives far more information.
http://www.eclipse.org/mat/ there is a standalone application and eclipse embedded one. you just need to run jmap on your application and analyze the result with this.