Mac slow activity monitor wired

HI,
My mac has been slowing down. I have tried to goole how to trouble shoot and was directed to the "activity monitor"..
I noted that my "wired" under system memory is 690 mb....
I have 1 program running firefox
My disk activity is constantly high red on the graph
I have 100gb fre on my HD of 499.25 gb
My CPU activity looks like a bright xmas treem with 4 bars all full of bright colors

That looks pretty normal to me, except for the high Page out and Swap use which indicates that you need more RAM for your usage.
See > OWC Certified RAM for Apple iMac with Lifetime Warranty
Currently I'm running OS X, a few Utilities, Safari, iTunes which never quits and I'm using a little more RAM than you are.
Also note: that with 8GB of RAM, I have no Page outs or Swap used and my Mac has not been restarted for almost 3 weeks.

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