using up ram when saving to file...

I have a game program running that saves player data at reqular intervals, this is data that would be used in later sessions.

An issue I have run into is that with the save function active , Task Manager shows memory usage increasing, which I believe is a memory leak symptom.

Am I opening and closing the file correctly...?

dir$="players\"+p\user$+"\"+p\name$+"\cords.dat"
fileout=WriteFile(dir$)
WriteString(fileout,p\cord$)
CloseFile(fileout)

dir$=""
fileout=0


Any help on why memory use would increase by using this function would be welcome.

BB3D version 1.98

My initial thought is that Windows might be storing the file in RAM and never bothering to clear the RAM until necessary.
However, I will look into this somemore...

Yeah I was wondering if windows is holding it in ram...