Thanks for the quick reply. Activity Monitor doesn't show much happening - as far as I can tell. The "Memory Pressure" is green and it does show a lot of accessing in the "Disk" tab. I ran the "top" command and here is what it gave me:
Processes: 189 total, 2 running, 7 stuck, 180 sleeping, 842 threads 14:36:51
Load Avg: 1.84, 1.82, 1.77 CPU usage: 4.36% user, 2.42% sys, 93.20% idle
SharedLibs: 328K resident, 0B data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 146326 total, 3672M resident, 0B private, 864M shared.
PhysMem: 7803M used (624M wired), 388M unused.
VM: 471G vsize, 1025M framework vsize, 0(0) swapins, 0(0) swapouts.
Networks: packets: 58763/29M in, 38707/6703K out.
Disks: 57579/2119M read, 33372/714M written.
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #PORT MEM PURG CMPR PGRP PPID
1751 top 2.5 00:03.79 1/1 0 19 2928K 0B 0B 1751 1744
1744 bash 0.0 00:00.01 1 0 15 812K 0B 0B 1744 1743
1743 login 0.0 00:00.08 2 0 27 4904K 0B 0B 1743 1741
1741 Terminal 3.8 00:02.57 9 3 194 34M 12K 0B 1741 1
1706 com.apple.We 0.0 00:03.45 8 0 174 88M 64K 0B 1706 1
1701 CVMCompiler 0.0 00:00.02 2 1 28 3344K 0B 0B 1701 1
1698 DataDetector 0.0 00:00.10 2 0 49 20M 0B 0B 1698 1
1514 syspolicyd 0.0 00:00.01 2 1 31 1512K 0B 0B 1514 1
1100 com.apple.Sa 0.0 00:00.65 4 0 70 17M 0B 0B 1100 1
1098 com.apple.We 0.0 00:40.06 9 1 182 147M 252K 0B 1098 1
1001 amfid 0.0 00:00.06 2 1 26 5504K 0B 0B 1001 1
960 EscrowSecuri 0.0 00:00.17 4 1 134 29M 0B 0B 960 1
853 cfprefsd 0.0 00:00.02 2 1 25 1284K 0B 0B 853 1
850- CS6ServiceMa 0.0 00:00.18 5 0 107 10M 0B 0B 850 1
843 Activity Mon 0.0 01:07.05 6 3 209 37M 9184K 0B 843 1
826 AdobeCrashDa 0.1 00:05.78 1 0 15 17M 0B 0B 826 782
782 Adobe Illust 0.0 00:23.03 21 0 347 330M 936K 0B 782 1
777- SwitchBoard 0.0 00:00.09 7 0 66 6540K 0B 0B 777 1
775 AdobeCrashDa 0.1 00:05.75 1 0 15 17M 0B 0B 775 772
774 Image Captur 0.0 00:00.23 3 0 129 22M 0B 0B 774 1
772 Adobe Bridge 0.0 00:07.18 17 1 200 71M 0B 0B 772 1
745 com.apple.ge 0.0 00:00.64 5 0 101 24M 0B 0B 745 1
714 com.apple.au 0.0 00:00.04 2 1 38 5060K 0B 0B 714 1
713 com.apple.au 0.0 00:00.06 2 1 22 13M 0B 0B 713 1
709 com.apple.We 0.0 00:10.46 13 0 269 218M 280K 0B 709 1
693 spindump 0.0 00:09.98 2 1 51 30M 0B 0B 693 1
601 System Event 0.0 00:02.95 6 3 131 28M 0B 0B 601 1
597 mdflagwriter 0.0 00:00.02 2 1 20 748K 0B 0B 597 1
596 mdflagwriter 0.0 00:00.01 2 1 17 732K 0B 0B 596 1
595 mdworker 0.0 00:00.70 2 0 39 14M 0B 0B 595 1
594 distnoted 0.0 00:00.01 2 0 29 1240K 0B 0B 594 1
589 mdworker 0.0 00:00.21 4 0 55 19M 0B 0B 589 1
586 com.apple.In 0.0 00:00.08 2 0 43 15M 0B 0B 586 1
582 AppleSpell 0.0 00:01.17 2 0 64 9904K 0B 0B 582 1
581 storedownloa 0.0 00:00.10 2 0 41 18M 0B 0B 581 1
580 LaterAgent 0.0 00:00.15 3 0 126 20M 0B 0B 580 1
579 storeassetd 0.0 00:00.17 2 0 82 16M 0B 0B 579 1
578 com.apple.sp 0.0 00:00.38 4 2 48 21M 0B 0B 578 1
576 storelegacy 0.0 00:00.07 2 0 40 14M 0B 0B 576 1
573- Microsoft AU 0.0 00:00.29 4 2 98 8448K 0B 0B 573 1
Does that tell you anything?