ASL files be eating muh shiz

Hi everyone,
I got this problem that seems to keep wanting to bug me.
I've always had these problems where my HD seems to start eating it's own disk space for no apparent reason. And then it rectifies itself, again, with no readily obvious reason.
I've been advised to check the console and find any errant log files, but nothing seems to leap out at me as anything I should worry about.
Anyway, it seems this time around I have these .asl files that keep appearing in my /private/var/log/asl folder. what are these and can they be deleted? I understand that I should not be playing around with things in my private area(!) but these files seem to have no discernible purpose or source.
Any other tips on helping reclaim HD space would be great too!
cheers XD

Do you have Norton AntiVirus installed? Lots of reports of issues there, including huge block of disk space going walkabout.
Activity Monitor, (AM) in Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities, may help you spot a process that is writing logs excessively. For it to work, you have to make minor changes to the way AM displays. By default, it displays "My Processes" in a pull-down in the upper part of the window. Change this to "All Processes" to get the big picture. In the columns, highlight the column header "%CPU" to sort by how much of the CPU any given process is using.
Use the computer normally for a while, then shut down any apps you have used so the computer is at idle, running only the background stuff you can't control. Then relaunch AM and see if any single process is using over 10 percent of the "%CPU. Note the names of the guilty process and post it/them here and we can make suggestions.
I used AM like this to find that a game demo was causing the system logger to continually write, ballooning the log file for its usually size of ~250k to over 60MB. It wasn't so much the disk space that was missing but the time it took the logger to update and save that size file. It dragged my MBP to a crawl even when the game demo was not running.

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