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

Try to use MAT and make sure that when you parse the heapdump, do it not dropping out the unreachable objects.

To do so, follow the tutorial here.

Then you can run a simple Mem Leak Analysis (This is a good tutorial)

That should quickly lead you to the root cause.