Safari Takes Up 2.5GB of RAM?

Hey guys, I just recently converted to Macs. I bought a 21.5" iMac last wednesday with the upgraded hard drive and graphics card. This thing is a beast. Quite a step up from my four year old HP Pavilion notebook with Windows XP (which is still working for me, but I'll tell you, McAfee Antivirus is so terrible that it practically IS a virus itself...). I've been reading up on Macs a LOT this past week, on the internet and from a book I purchased with the machine. I seem to be finding all the answers to my questions, however, there is one thing I really can't seem to figure out yet. When I try to run this game that uses Java as a platform (Runescape), at first I will note that upon loading this game and just playing for a minute or two, Safari will use about 550-650MB of RAM (which is quite a lot still from what I hear, for Safari, but then again I play on high-detail mode and my old laptop that had 1GB of RAM and a 2.0GHz processor could barely handle this, so 650MB of RAM usage is believable for me). But the bizarre thing is that after a half hour or so, Safari will be taking up 1.5 GB of RAM, and after even more time it will cap at about 2.5 GB of RAM (or at least this is the highest I've seen it go.) The RAM does NOT go to inactive RAM, which is where I would expect it to go at all, but it is indeed active RAM according to my activity monitor application. My computer does not freeze up at all when it does this, neither does the processor bog down (it stays at around 45% inactive throughout). But I'm just wondering...2.5GB of RAM? Seriously? What makes it start so low and go so high? I tried to find an explicit answer for this via google searches but the only thing I could find was that some people were stating Safari has a "memory leak," or whatnot and that hopefully Apple would address this issue in a near-future update. I'm not complaining here, this really doesn't affect my overall experience with the machine since I don't run other memory heavy applications with Safari, but I'm really curious as to why this happens. Does it happen to anyone else out there? Any thoughts at all?
Oh, and I don't open a million other tabs, in case some of you are thinking this might explain it.

Caramby, you are running LP7, no? Juca is asking about Logic Studio.
Juca, your system exceeds the minimum requirements for the program, but you might have some trouble running projects with a lot of tracks/instruments. Post your question in the Logic 8 forum, I'm sure you can find someone with a similar system who can report how smoothly LP8 runs on it.

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