I have a late 2009 macbook  with osx 10.9.2 i recently added more memory to stop the colored pinwheel from poping up all the time but it has started again any ideas why this might be ty

my 2009 mac book  has the pinwheel popping up alot any ideas?

You'd have to look into Activity Monitor utility, to see if any applications or processes are running or hogging system resources; not just RAM (as it may seem OK even if it isn't; esp in Mavericks) but in the areas of hard drive capacities. Could be you have some other issues not just a too-full hard disk drive, or not enough RAM installed.
Late 2009 MacBook 13-inch:
Introduced
October 2009
Discontinued
May 2010
Model Identifier
MacBook6,1
Model Number
A1342
EMC
2350
Order Number
MC207LL/A
RAM spec:
Maximum Memory
8.0 GB (Actual) 4.0 GB (Apple)
Memory Slots
2 - 204-pin PC3-8500 (1066MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM
•MacBook: How to remove or install memory
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1651
{specs from http://mactracker.ca for MacBook6.1, Late 2009, 13-inch model}
Another utility that could show you plenty of busywork things going on, is Console. The system logs in there can show a detailed list of tons of activity. Perhaps some of the often-repeated results may be worth considering; and go by the time (day, hour, minute) you notice the spinning wheel; look into the logs from then.
Have you tried starting up in SafeBoot (shift key held on startup, then login screen appears, hold down shift key again when you login) and then run Disk Utility's repair disk permissions? When done, you could try & restart the computer normally.
If you happen to get incorrect specification RAM (close but not correct) that could also play into a spinning wheel deal; however the problem may be something else that RAM did not cure. Yet bad or incorrect RAM only adds to a pre-existing issue, since it could not solve it. Same with a System Upgrade. To upgrade to Mavericks with problems already does not mean they would go away; often that makes the first condition harder to resolve.
Good luck & happy computing!

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