Why is PermGen space growing?

Question

I\'ve read a few articles, and I understood the following (please correct me and/or edit the question if I\'m wrong):

The java heap is segmented like this:

Answer 1

If you are working with Java EE application it's probably a classloader leak.

you might find the following additional links to be useful:

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/rjc201/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-dclp3/index.html