Image of ffxiv after without closing the game (the earlier game crash halfed the memory usage but it built up quickly as it never closed the game out)
This is what my mem usage looks like usually around 32 hours (I travel all 3 cities, walk to aethers etc)
1.7GB-1.8GB
Game gets a little laggy at some points.
http://www.neko-sentai.com/images9ruf/48hr.jpg
1.1GB
This is after restarting the game
http://www.neko-sentai.com/images9ruf/Restart.jpg
when the "commit" and 'working" equal about 2GB ffxiv crashes.
This may not be a every day issue but it may explain why people crash... as ffxiv tends to load EVERYTHING and keeps everything in memory cached... till it crashes.
let me know if links don't lead to ffxiv images properly, should be though!)