Does available memory slowly decrease as run time increases? (UNIX pc)

[Lenny Tropiano]

My machine has been running for 15 days, no hardware modifications needed
to bring it down ;-)  No power failures ... No earthquakes :-) [glad
to see you're OK, Thad & Scott!]

Anyhow, I've been noticing a striking parallel with boot time and
available memory.  I've always run a pathalias on my machine in the
morning.  It's always worked (ie. enough memory)... Now I've been
getting these messages...

rehash into 2039
rehash into 3067
rehash into 5113
rehash into 8179
rehash into 13309
rehash into 21499
rehash into 34807
17611 vertices, 42312 edges
allocation is 1424k after parsing
*** mapping
/usr/lbin/pathalias: out of memory (1532k allocated); notify the authorities

What's strange ... I've seen this die when it's said something like:
2560k allocated (2.5MB...)  But never 1.5MB!  Could there still be
a bug in the kernel, something not freeing up memory.  Granted I have
user processes, an extra daemon or two for STARLAN, but it should be
able to allocate more memory.  Nothing else was going on!  
I guess it's time to notify the authorities (AT&T) :-)

-Lenny
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