I did have bootchart installed. So I removed and purged it and went as far as moving the hidden .bootchart directory to the trash (couldn't delete it) and then restarting the computer. So far this seems to have resolved the problem for me. I'm no longer seeing the slow but steady increase in memory usage. So my thanks to Jacek Kończewski for his comment above (#47).
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