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

As this sounds unspecific, one candidate would have been JSF. But then I would have expected hash maps leaking too.

Should you use JSF: In web.xml you could try:

• javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD client
• com.sun.faces.numberOfViewsInSession 0
• com.sun.faces.numberOfLogicalViews 1

As for tools: JavaMelody might be interesting for continual statistics, but needs effort.