Spinning beachballs, slow machines, and vanishing free RAM

I have a tale to tell and a question at the end.
I have an iBook G4, running OS10.3.9. I have been using it without major problems for over a year. I have over 9 G of free disk space.
About a month ago, with no apparent cause, I became afflicted with the spinning beach ball of death. This would happen usually after I had been using the machine for a few hours and had three or four major applications running: iTunes, Word, Entourage, and Safari, say. The machine would become unresponsive. The beach ball would appear for virtually every mouse click. At its worst, it could take three minutes or more for the machine to respond to a command. Once in this state, even quitting applications did not significantly increase speed. Usually a restart did, but not always.
The affliction was unpredictable. I could go several days without a problem, and then, bingo, I’m in the molasses again.
What did I do? I updated my anti-virus software and gave a scan — no problems found. I checked for updates for my various applications and for the operating system. Suspecting Entourage, which has been prone to slowness, I rebuilt its database. I think I rebuilt my desktop, too. I ran Disk Utility and fixed permissions — no improvement. I ran Tech Tool — no problems found. I ran MacJanitor — no improvement. I ran Activity Monitor to see if the CPU was tied up. No, it wasn’t. Was the RAM overloaded? I only had 256 M, and it was basically fully allocated most of the time. I had significant numbers of page-outs. The green wedge of free RAM on the Activity Monitor pie chart was just a sliver.
So, I installed another 512 M of RAM. This seems to have helped. But to my surprise it hasn’t completely cured the problem.
I keep Activity Monitor running and set its icon in the dock to show RAM use. At the beginning of the day, maybe 70 percent of the RAM is green (free). After I start my usual round of applications, the green slice drops to say 40 percent.
Now here is the odd thing: the amount of green will shrink during the day. There seems to be a ratchet effect going on. When I start an application, the amount of free RAM shrinks. When I quit the application, some of the free RAM comes back, but not all of it. Also, the amount of free RAM may shrink even if I do nothing at all — if I just go for a break and come back to my machine a while later.
Right now, it is late in the day. I am back to a sliver of green on the RAM chart. I have tried restarting my computer. Instead of the 70 percent green wedge I expected, it came right back to a nearly fully allocated RAM. If I try to switch between apps or start a new app, or even copy something to the clipboard, I may get a beach ball for five to twenty seconds — or I may not. It's unpredictable.
Another odd thing: The amount of memory listed as in use by various processes in Activity Monitor does not add up to the amount of memory shown as in use on the pie chart. The sum of the memory listed in use is lower than the amount shown in use on the pie chart.
So what is going on? Is this just bad memory management by OSX? Has my machine’s RAM been taken over by aliens? Or is it something else? And is there a cure?
Thanks for any help.
- Ken
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

An update -- and hopefully a root cause and solution.
The maintenance task that seemed to free up the RAM was rebuilding the locate database, one of the weekly tasks that MacJanitor or OnyX will do on request. Why it worked, I don't know. It seemed to reduce the amount of assigned but inactive RAM.
It was only a temporary fix though. The amount of free RAM would begin to slowly drop after the task was done, and within a few hours it would be almost gone again.
Yesterday afternoon, the spinning beachball returned with a vengance. This time, however, it appeared while over half the RAM was free. Tasks shown in Activity Monitor, particularly window servers, began to hang.
I repaired permissions. No improvement. I ran Disk Utility from the start-up disk. It found problems on the hard drive that it could not repair. I ran Tech Tool from its CD. The hard drive failed Tech Tool's write and read buffer tests and had flaws in its directory. Tech Tool repaired the directory. I rebooted OS X, and the machine still had the slows. I backed up key data. I ran Tech Tool again from the CD. This time the disk passed the read and write buffer tests, but the directory was rotten again.
I repaired the directory and did an Archive and Install of the operating system. When the machine restarted, I ran Software Update. It downloaded 8 files. When it tried to then read them on the disk and install them, every one of them was corrupted.
Cut to punchline: I took the machine to an Apple Store today and they diagnosed a bad hard drive. I suspect that an infrequent intermittent disk error, worse in the afternoons when the machine was warm, was the source of the problems from the beginning. Yesterday, the disk failure became more frequent. By today, the disk was basically useless.
Thank you, Andrew at the Apple Genius Bar. Thank you, makers of external hard drives that make frequent back-ups easy. Back up your data, friends. Hard drives can fail.
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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    Backup size 999.54 GB < (Disk used 420.88 GB X 3)
    Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
    19% WindowServer
    8% soffice
    2% Evernote
    2% Little Snitch Agent
    0% fontd
    Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
    945 MB Finder
    490 MB WindowServer
    421 MB softwareupdated
    215 MB soffice
    163 MB Evernote
    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
    1.33 GB Free RAM
    3.55 GB Active RAM
    2.14 GB Inactive RAM
    1.57 GB Wired RAM
    4.37 GB Page-ins
    168 KB Page-outs
    Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
    Feb 22, 2015, 10:10:31 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ufsd_NTFS.util_2015-02-22-101031_[redacted].cra sh
    Feb 21, 2015, 11:25:30 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Skype_2015-02-21-232530_[redacted].hang
    Feb 21, 2015, 09:23:16 PM Self test - passed
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    Feb 20, 2015, 12:54:21 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/soffice_2015-02-20-125421_[redacted].hang
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    Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
    System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:13, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
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    Logical processor count: 24
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    Image cache levels: 4
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    OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
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    Display Bounds:=  top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200, right: 1920
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    Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
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    Scratch volume(s):
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    Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\
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    Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
    Installed components:
       A3DLIBS.dll   A3DLIB Dynamic Link Library   9.2.0.112  
       ACE.dll   ACE 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       adbeape.dll   Adobe APE 2012/01/25-10:04:55   66.1025012   66.1025012
       AdobeLinguistic.dll   Adobe Linguisitc Library   6.0.0  
       AdobeOwl.dll   Adobe Owl 2012/06/26-12:17:19   4.0.95   66.510504
       AdobePDFL.dll   PDFL 2011/12/12-16:12:37   66.419471   66.419471
       AdobePIP.dll   Adobe Product Improvement Program   6.0.0.1654  
       AdobeXMP.dll   Adobe XMP Core 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       AdobeXMPFiles.dll   Adobe XMP Files 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       AdobeXMPScript.dll   Adobe XMP Script 2012/02/06-14:56:27   66.145661   66.145661
       adobe_caps.dll   Adobe CAPS   6,0,29,0  
       AGM.dll   AGM 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       ahclient.dll    AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library   1,7,0,56  
       aif_core.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       aif_ocl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       aif_ogl.dll   AIF   3.0   62.490293
       amtlib.dll   AMTLib (64 Bit)   6.0.0.75 (BuildVersion: 6.0; BuildDate: Mon Jan 16 2012 18:00:00)   1.000000
       ARE.dll   ARE 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
       AXE8SharedExpat.dll   AXE8SharedExpat 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830
       AXEDOMCore.dll   AXEDOMCore 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830
       Bib.dll   BIB 2012/06/05-15:16:32   66.507768   66.507768
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       Collada 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
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       Craquelure 13.0
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       Extrude 13.0
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       Film Grain 13.0
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       Fresco 13.0
       Glass 13.0
       Glowing Edges 13.0
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       Grain 13.0
       Graphic Pen 13.0
       Halftone Pattern 13.0
       HDRMergeUI 13.0
       IFF Format 13.0
       Ink Outlines 13.0
       JPEG 2000 13.0
       Kurtosis 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Lens Blur 13.0
       Lens Correction 13.0
       Lens Flare 13.0
       Liquify 13.0
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       Maximum 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Mean 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Measurement Core 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Median 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Mezzotint 13.0
       Minimum 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       MMXCore Routines 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Mosaic Tiles 13.0
       Multiprocessor Support 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Neon Glow 13.0
       Note Paper 13.0
       NTSC Colors 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Ocean Ripple 13.0
       Oil Paint 13.0
       OpenEXR 13.0
       Paint Daubs 13.0
       Palette Knife 13.0
       Patchwork 13.0
       Paths to Illustrator 13.0
       PCX 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Photocopy 13.0
       Photoshop 3D Engine 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Picture Package Filter 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Pinch 13.0
       Pixar 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Plaster 13.0
       Plastic Wrap 13.0
       PNG 13.0
       Pointillize 13.0
       Polar Coordinates 13.0
       Portable Bit Map 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Poster Edges 13.0
       Radial Blur 13.0
       Radiance 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Range 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Read Watermark 4.0
       Reticulation 13.0
       Ripple 13.0
       Rough Pastels 13.0
       Save for Web 13.0
       ScriptingSupport 13.0.1
       Shear 13.0
       Skewness 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Smart Blur 13.0
       Smudge Stick 13.0
       Solarize 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Spatter 13.0
       Spherize 13.0
       Sponge 13.0
       Sprayed Strokes 13.0
       Stained Glass 13.0
       Stamp 13.0
       Standard Deviation 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Sumi-e 13.0
       Summation 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Targa 13.0
       Texturizer 13.0
       Tiles 13.0
       Torn Edges 13.0
       Twirl 13.0
       U3D 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Underpainting 13.0
       Vanishing Point 13.0
       Variance 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Variations 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Water Paper 13.0
       Watercolor 13.0
       Wave 13.0
       Wavefront|OBJ 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       WIA Support 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       Wind 13.0
       Wireless Bitmap 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00)
       ZigZag 13.0
    Optional and third party plug-ins: NONE
    Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
    Flash:
       Mini Bridge
       Extensis
       Kuler
    Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

    My Old System was:
    Dell T5500
    GPU1: ATI FirePro 5700
    GPU2: Nvidia Geforce 210
    CPU1:Xeon E5520 2.26Ghz
    CPU2:  Xeon E5520 2.26Ghz
    C Drive: 80gb Sata 10K RPM
    D Drive/Scratch Disk: 80gb Sata 10K RPM
    Photoshop CS6 was set at default performance setting with the exception of the D drive being used for the scratch disk. GPU Processor was checked.
    Worked on numerous large files 100 mg plus with little to no issue. Most setup in CMYK, 200 dpi, 8 bit depth.
    New Machine:
    Dell T5600
    Two ATI FirePro V5900
    CPU1: Xeon E5-2630
    CPU2: Xeon E5-2630
    C Drive: 240 gb SSD
    D Drive:
    My Old System was:
    Dell T5500
    GPU1: ATI FirePro 5700
    GPU2: Nvidia Geforce 210
    CPU1:Xeon E5520 2.26Ghz
    CPU2:  Xeon E5520 2.26Ghz
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