Beach ball and processor speed

Hello,
I am using a G4 iBook (933MHz with extra ram), I seem to be getting the dreaded beach ball a lot and the processing speed appears to have dropped (eg when opening applications). Any ideas about how I can check what the processor is doing?
Regards
James

James--
You can open the Activity Monitor from your Utilites folder. The top part of the window will show you the processes on yoru computer. Select "All Processes" from the pop up menu. You change how the processes are sorted by clicking on the headers of the various columns. Click on the "% CPU" column until the processes with the most cpu time are at the top. In general, unless you have other programs running, it'll be Activity Monitor itself taking up the most CPU time.
Though it says you can kill processes from that window, don't do it unless you know what you're doing. Report back with any proceses that are taking up 25% or more of the CPU.
charlie

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    previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
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    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.8.1)@0x463000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(1.4.13)@0x4a5000
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