"The methodology for analyzing memory leaks is four steps: 1. Do I have a leak (and does it needs fixing - use gc logs to see); 2. What is leaking (instances of which classes - compare two heap histograms separated by enough time to see the leak); 3. What is keeping the objects alive (what instances in the app - you need a heap dump to find these); 4. Where is it leaking from (the code where the objects are created and/or assigned - any memory profiler which can sort on GC generations and provide object creation traces)."
