Wired memory counts up to 100%, how to find unknown process leaking memory

Hi,
On my Macbook Pro 2011, 8GB wired memory counts up to 100% over a period of 4-5 regular usage days. The more I use the macbook, the more wired memory grows until I have to restart again, otherwise the machine becomes slow because it uses the harddrive for memory. This is not normal behavior!
Attached is a screenshot of the activity monitor. I'm not able to identify the process which leaks the wired memory.
I had once an eyeopening experience: I was about to restart my macbook totally overloaded by wired memory but then I canceled the shutdown because of some reason. Some of the processes and programmes were already terminated and SURPRISE, the wired memory was down to 10%! The 8 Gb were all of a sudden shared by free, active and inactive memory, as it should be! So some process was terminated during shutdown which caused the leak and even freed all of the wired memory. I did work with the macbook for 2 more days without any memory problem. Once I restarted, the leaking problem started again.
My gut-feeling says the hole problem started when I installed VM Ware Fusion a while ago. But I did a clean uninstall.
The solution could be to identify the leaking process, but how should I do this? It is also not clear to me wether wired memory is real, virtual, private or shared memory displayed in the activity monitor. Is there any tool which identify memory leaks?
According to g_wolfman, the only process with a hugh difference between real and virtual memory is the kernel_task and the many Chrome Renderer processes. I have always 30 tabs open in chrome plus Safari (Flash disabled). I'm not able to terminate the kernel_task of course.
Is there any way to isolate the troublesome process? There is no save start mode like in Microsoft Windows possible? This would be the first think I would do, checking if the problem persists in save mode.
Disabled every start login objects btw.
See in the image the amount of wired memory compared to the processes which are active. This is NOT the smart memory management OSX is capable of.

Any suggestion? Is my system doomed to bleed to death every 3-4 days, until memory went 100% red (wired)? I would expect OS X to be smart enough to indicate memory leakers. I really do not get it.
I migrated the same settings and applications to my freshly installed (10.7.4) 2007 Macbook. There the majority of RAM is active not wired.
The only big difference is: On my 2011 Macbook Pro was VMWARE Fusion installed.

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