New HD and OS installed, but system gets slower as time goes by

I have just put in a new 250GB HD, a new DVD-R drive, and installed a new OS(10.4.11). When the Powerbook first boots up, it works fine, but as time goes by(just a few minutes even), the system gets bogged down and eventually grinds to a halt. I've been told the HD is "leaking" to a file and the file is getting bigger and bigger to the point that the system can't run. I've watched the HD and I don't see any files getting bigger, but the HD "GB available" gets smaller and smaller(starting at 221GB and going down to below 200GB. Not sure what to do next. Please help.

Use Activity Monitor to see what is hogging your CPU cycles and slowing the machine down. The difference between 200GB available and 221GB available is not causing the slowdown. The process that is consuming enough CPU cycles to write 21GB of data to the hard drive is your problem.

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