title: Loaded class count in Tomcat keep going up
body: <p>I'm using Java Melody to monitor one of our apps that is a standard J2EE app, deployed in Tomcat 6, with Apache 2 as the front end, using AJP.  There are two instances that sit behind an F5.  Things seem fairly normal, and it's a low volume app; it averages about 200 hits a minute, uses about 4% of the CPU, and averages 350 meg of memory.  The one thing that is troubling me is the loaded class count; after three days, one JVM is at 752k, and the other at 741k.  Three is a direct corilation of usage with class-count increase</p>
  
  <p>In looking around stackoverflow, there seem to be a lot of posts of this happening when the app is stopped &amp; restarted, or redeployed, in Tomcat.  That is not the case here.  Any time we redeploy, the entire thing is stopped, including Apache.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas how to figure out what is going on?</p>