I need help finding my memory leak using MAT

Question

I\'m using the MAT to compare two heap dumps. I\'ve been taking a heap dump each day and it\'s growing by about 200 megs each day. I think the leak is associated with java.u

Answer 1

Sean's comment put me on the correct track. I'm using Glassfish v 2.0 and it has a memory leak. It continually creates new LogManagers and adds them to the ApplicationShutdownHooks collection.

I worked around the issue by cracking open the ApplicationShutdownHooks and manually removing the objects from the collection.