How to find memory leaks using visualvm
问题 I suspect we have a major memory leak in our ActiveMQ connection bridge - we're seeing typical memory leak patterns (app loads fine, slows down if it runs for prolonged periods of time or is restarted over and over again over short periods of time). I looked up modern best practices for finding Java memory leaks and a lot of developers seem to be abandoning traditional tools like jhat/jmap in lieu of the new(er) jvisualvm . Upon launching this tool (and spending a few hours reading over its