Memory Leak?

My Pi runs with the following command in the crontab file

0 0 * * * sh memtest >>stats/memavail

Which means "check and record free RAM every midnight" and where memtest contains:

date "+%D %R"
grep MemFree </proc/meminfo

And here's the memavail data since 9/11:

MemFree:          368780 kB (after reboot)
09/11/13 00:00
MemFree:          206572 kB
09/12/13 00:00
MemFree:          199620 kB
09/13/13 00:00
MemFree:          194668 kB
09/14/13 00:00
MemFree:          191468 kB
09/15/13 00:00
MemFree:          381268 kB
09/16/13 00:00
MemFree:           82852 kB
09/17/13 00:00
MemFree:           15280 kB
09/18/13 00:00
MemFree:           15536 kB
09/19/13 00:00
MemFree:           16552 kB
09/20/13 00:00
MemFree:          368384 kB (after reboot)
09/21/13 00:00
MemFree:          182220 kB
09/22/13 00:00
MemFree:          174812 kB
09/23/13 00:00
MemFree:          170820 kB
09/24/13 00:00
MemFree:          168828 kB
09/25/13 00:00
MemFree:          167620 kB
09/26/13 00:00
MemFree:          166388 kB
09/27/13 00:00
MemFree:          164620 kB
09/28/13 00:00
MemFree:          164124 kB
09/29/13 00:00
MemFree:          163124 kB

So, does the free RAM just diminish until nothing will run? Or will there be a miracle garbage collection when things get tight? My little shell file (memtest) could also force a reboot when memfree got below an arbitrary value. But is it necessary?

Anyone know?