[ale] Memory leak (hacked?)

[Geoffrey]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> My wife's box has those in the logs sporadically.  Every distro of
> SuSE I've tried so far still generates those.  I believe it is the 
> motherboard hardware and the ethernet module that generates them.
> Cheap hardware most likely.  It isn't sign of being hacked.  Under
> heavy load it increases.

I agree that the two are not related, but I still would be concerned 
with not being able to determine where the memory is going.  If a 
process is eating up memory, it should show on top.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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