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> CVS HEAD builds I did on 20080702, 20080810, 20080915, and 20081025
> all steadily grow in process VmRSS and VmSize to the tune of ~70-100MB
> per day when I use gnus and let it automatically check for new mail.

Does this problem only show up when you use gnus?  Could you try keeping
another Emacs session around for other non-gnus usage, and see if it
leaks memory?