What is up with all the gb's of "other" on my hard-drive, and how to get rid of it??

when i look at the overview of my hard-drives (i have 3, tb-sized internal hard-drives installed into my 2008 macpro) i see a lot of "other" in yellow.
anyone know what that is and how to remedy? it seems to me that a few hundred gigs of "other" is suspicious.
sorry, i have mountain lion OS not snow leopard, but i tagged it incorrectly

(10.6.8)
Can you please post a screen shot of where you are seeing the "yellow" in Snow Leopard OS or advise which app you are using for the "overview?"
*SOLUTION* When applications consume too much RAM
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