analyzing heap dump with eclipse memory analyser

Question

I have generated a heap dump into a file using the jmap command and I am doing memory analysis using Eclipse Mars. I am basically trying to figure out the memory leak in Tomcat 8. Whenever, I start Tomcat 8, I keep on getting the Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded in the tomcat logs and hence I am doing all this to figure out the leak.

I can see the following report(screenshot) in eclipse but I am unable to figure out how to fix this problem. Please let me know if more screenshots are needed.

Another thing I have tried before performing above steps :

I set up a setenv.bat file and included the following instructions in it :

set JAVA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xms128m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

However, this thing didn't help me.

Answer 1

Could you elaborate it more? The leak might be occurring because of your deployed applications