OSX keeps stalling

Hi there,
OSX keeps stalling every 5 to 10 minutes for about 30 seconds to a Minute. What I mean by stalling is I am unable to type anything in my word documents or my firefox windows. Running activity monitor freezes as well and just before the freeze I can see that the CPU usage is about 87% idle.
1) I created a new user and still the problem persists.
2) I ran disk permissions about three times and rebooted
3) ran macjanitor and rebooted.
4) Ran drive test from the CD and drive tests fine.
what else can I check?
Cheers,
noah

Noah, do you get a spinning beach ball ever when this happens. That has been happening to me for a while now. I'm guessing bad memory or a bad hard drive with intermittent failure. In my case I tried reformatting and reinstalling the OS, and it seemed to work ok for a while, but then I recovered my LARGE storage of email (about 4k messages, some with large attachments in Mail) and the problem started again.
I don't know if that's circumstantial or not, but I've cleared most of my Mail, quit Mail processes (Activity Monitor showed Mail taking up some RAM - about 30MB) and will test it out for a bit, including a restart.
I still suspect memory or the HD, but I'll try to let you know how my test goes.
Carl

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