System not freeing up memory/Programs continually using up more and more memory

[ramblinwreck]

Yeah. If you had the defaults still that pretty much makes sense. We can cross it off the list at least though. I know you said you reinstalled recently, what programs have you installed since then? Stealing a command from here:

List and sort out Installed Packages according to time

You can do this grep "\[ALPM\] installed" /var/log/pacman.log It will list all packages according to their install date (not when they were last updated!). But if you removed some packages, they will still be listed, because they were installed at some point. We can also list all the packages and their removal dates and do some programming to filter the list, but that requires effort

Try: grep "\[ALPM\] installed" /var/log/pacman.log and we can get a list of what you installed.