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Haha, I found the culprit guys. 
I forgot that a long time ago I had gone to my hidden /vm folder where the swap-files are held on the main partition, and symbolic-linked them out to a bigger partition (to keep my OSX partition slim for backups). What had happened was that bigger partition had gotten filled up over time and I was unaware of how full it was (200mb free), which meant that the swapfiles could not be written to disk. Hence all ram had to be kept in live ram as wired.
It makes total sense now. I cleaned up a bit of space on that drive and immediately the wired memory dropped to normal levels. (see pic)
Its also a sign of just how smart Apple/OSX really is.
Thanks for all the attempts to help guys.
I forgot that a long time ago I had gone to my hidden /vm folder where the swap-files are held on the main partition, and symbolic-linked them out to a bigger partition (to keep my OSX partition slim for backups). What had happened was that bigger partition had gotten filled up over time and I was unaware of how full it was (200mb free), which meant that the swapfiles could not be written to disk. Hence all ram had to be kept in live ram as wired.
It makes total sense now. I cleaned up a bit of space on that drive and immediately the wired memory dropped to normal levels. (see pic)
Its also a sign of just how smart Apple/OSX really is.
Thanks for all the attempts to help guys.
