How to detect memory leak ????

I have an app that runs monitors system.
I tested it on the Win 2000 Pro, no prob it takes 8MB top
Once I moved it to Win 2000 Server the ram usage grows constantly, it is over 30 mb now
WHY?
Are there any issues with 2000 server?
HOw to debug it?
I try JProbe , ran app for 2 hours with Profiler and it does not go over 8 MB heap???
Thank you.

JVMs are the same.
How do you limit the heap???
JProbe did not fina anything but after a few hours I
got out of vertual memory error. Java took 300MB I
asumed it was because of JProbe.
Thnks Yarik.To limit the Java heap, you specify these paramaters
java -Xmx8m YourClassNameHere
However, given that you ran out of virtual memory, it sounds to me that something else is going on outside the Java heap. The heap limit, by default, is only 64MB, so that can't be it.
What version of Java are you using (use "java -version" to find out for sure).
Chuck

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