Detecting a permgen memory leak in a Java application

Uh… PermGen? What year is it? This must be blog spam from the past.

Detecting? It's safe to assume that if there's any statics there's a permgen leak.

&gt; Steps to use visualvm to profile memory for a standalone JBoss application:<p>&gt; Allow visualvm to use 1024 Mb of RAM - in etc&#x2F;visualvm.conf update -Xmx parameter to -J-Xmx1024m<p>And this is why I avoid all Java apps I can -- there is always a need for some memory tuning. C++, Lisp, Perl, Go, Python, even Javascript can all use all the memory in my computer have without any action on my part, only Java keeps having the problems with it.