Memory Drain in 10.6.5

Hi all. I have a 2006 macbookpro running 10.6.5. I only have 2gb ram (maxed :() and am dealing with an issue with memory going missing as I work. When i first boot, I have 1.5gb available. If i open a program, it drains ram depending on the program's needs, but when i close it, it does not give all the ram back. For instance: i open firefox, it takes 100mb of ram, but on close only 50mb goes back to "Free" ram in Activity Monitor. It does this with all programs. After about 3 hours of use, I will have about 50mb of ram left (after having used cs5, firefox, coda, ect)
It seems to maybe be a buildup of many small processes taking about 30-50mb each. Also, I don't ever seem to see any Page Outs or Swap Used - they are always at 0. What are these for and why aren't they used?
Has anyone encountered this or know of a solution? Any help or tips at this point would be huge!!!
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ahhh i see. thanks.
i found this link explaining it in detail:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342?viewlocale=en_US

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BiggAW wrote:
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My reason for updating OS is so that I can also install iLife11 and import photobooth music clips into iMovie and edit them.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks Mike

You need a minimum of 1GB of RAM memory and 5GB of hard drive space. Click on the apple on the left of the menu bar, click about this mac, and it will tell you how much RAM memory you have. This is the memory programs run in. If it's 512MB, you'll have to add more before installing. Recommend Crucial (www.crucial.com) or OWC (www.macsales.com).
On your hard drive, after you look at RAM memory, click more info, on the left click serial-ATA, then click on your hard drive. That will tell you how much hard drive space you have available. (Or if your hard drive icon is shown on your desktop, highlight it then click command and i ) If it's less than 5GB, you need to free up space, and ideally should keep 10%-15% of the hard drive free for systems usage. This FAQ may help: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html

Since the last update of firefox, the time has been 25 to 35 seconds to enter bookmarks or even the time it takes to page down when it used to take a few seconds. can you check why it taking so long since the update on firefox.

since the last update a few days ago of firefox, the time has been 25 to 35 seconds to enter bookmarks or even the time it takes to page down when it used to take a few seconds. can you tell me why it taking so long since the update on firefox. may another update is in order.

I have now done pretty much every suggestion that even vaguely applies in the various helpful link provided. Thanks for the ongoing help. =)
I have managed to get FireFox's start-up memory usage down to about 100,000K, however it appears that memory usage keeps creeping up the longer FireFox is open. (It seems to top out around 500,000K.) And I'm not talking open for many hours or days - but rather for minutes and possibly up to a couple hours. (Based on how long I've been fiddling with all this so far.)
On the plus side, it does not appear GreaseMonkey is the culprit since with it active or disabled this memory creep still occurs. Although having GreaseMonkey enabled definitely increases the rate of memory creep. Though once it has creeped up to 150,000+K, disabling GM does not make it drop back down to the starting 100,000K.
I should point out I run a MacBook Pro and use Bootcamp to partition the hard drive and run it as a Windows 7 PC about half the time. I am running it literally as a PC or, alternately, as a Mac depending on which hard drive I choose to load. (I'm not "windowing" it.) This problem exists regardless of whether I am using the PC or the Mac. These repairs have been made currently on the PC side, and I will attempt them all again on the Mac side. I find it odd that this enormous memory drain has occurred on 3 different computers at the same time. (The two "halves" of my home laptop as well as the PC at my work place.)

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