Ram all used, system sluggish, nothing open

So it started after I upgraded to Leopard (clean install) and after my machine has been running for over a day or two, usually after using something flash intensive in safari but not always, Ill come back to my computer in the morning and my wired ram will be over 1.6gb and free will be less then 10mb and my swap file will be in excess of 2gb normally never is larger then 0/64mb, when the system is like that it is very slow until restart, is there anything I can do to fix this?
Programs left running almost always:
iTunes(75% of time)
Mail
iChat
Safari(half of the time)
Of these programs open, which ones open doesn't seem to change the excessive memory usage, and closing them doesn't return the memory.

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So about a month ago, i started noticing that all of my ram was used up. I have 8 GB, and i have like 1% available at all time.
I today decided to format my 256 SSD harddrive, and reinstall Mavericks - and i then installed "Memory Clean" from App Store, and it tells me the same. As soon as i launch the program, it tells me i have about 10-300 MB Memory available.
What can this be? I'd rather try and fix this problem my self, as the nearest authorised Apple store is a very far away.
The computer can actually be used pretty normally, but as soon as i launch Netflix, Youtube videos in full screen etc. it just starts lagging really bad.
Programs open when i took the screenshots were Mail, iTunes, Chrome, Calender and Notes.. Nothing else
It looks like Google Chrome is taking up a ton of activity on my computer - what can it be?
After re-installing my computer, i restored all my Chrome extensions, bookmarks etc.
EDIT: I just tried closing chrome and it immidieatly gave me more GB. So what do i have to clean out in Chrome? Right now i have Chrome open with hthis forum, and i still got like +3GB available..

From what I read, this is normal for Mav OS. Just because it is using this ram, doesn't mean it isn't free to be allocated somewhere else.
Mav uses ram better than any other Mac OS previous. It does however appear to allways run you low on ram but in fact, its the opposite. It pumps ram into the apps you currently have open becuase it knows you will be swapping back and forth.
Once you open another program, tab in chrome, etc the allocation will be there. Mavericks now has a memory compression feature that will compress the memory occupied by applications that aren't being actively used and give the freed up RAM to the application that needs it the most. The result is a much more responsive system and less memory being dumped to a swap file to the HDD which is what reduces the performance of your Mac.
http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/
Resources:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5470580?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23749393#23749393
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/#compressed-memory

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I installed a system on my external hard drive in efforts to solve a mail problem that is now resolved. Now, when I restart the computer, I get a grey screen with some code, some words and an unknown icon on it.
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Hi Valerie,
first of all: WELCOME TO THE DISCUSSIONS!
Reboot and hold down the Option-key during boot. This will bring you into the startup manager where you can select from all available systems.
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I have a new 2011 MBP and I just ran into a situation where I ran out of RAM and the computer became extremely sluggish. I had 1 Safari window open and XCode open, editing a very small project. Between these two programs I was using about 600MB of my total 4GB of RAM. Even though I was only using 600MB of RAM on actual programs, Activity Monitor reported I was out of Memory, and did not say that any programs were using all my memory, only that it was gone.
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