I have had this problem and the fix should be in the ADSM server code for AIX
in version 2.1.5.12.  I have running on our servers and it has been doing just
fine.  It no longer has the 'checkpoint' problem.

Chuck T.

>Date:    Fri, 9 May 1997 08:27:29 -0400
>From:    "Boles, Angel V." <bolesav AT WESTINGHOUSE DOT COM>
>Subject: Re: ADSM Recovery Log filling up
>
>We had a similar situation recently.  Our ADSM server is V2.1.10 on AIX,
>though.  Our recovery log had gone to 100% and ADSM just sat there and
>wasn't doing much of anything.  We canceled whatever we could and it
>still stayed at 100%.  We defined some temporary log space and extended
>the log, then restarted ADSM.
>
>I opened a pmr with IBM to see what else we could've done.  Apparently
>there is an undocumented ADSM command called:   ckpt    .  This forces a
>checkpoint on the log and will 'normally' reduce it.  We've not tried
>the command to see if it works yet.  To see what caused the log to fill,
>IBM gave us series of show commands.  (these would have to be done
>before the ckpt command, of course).  They are:
>
>q se f=d                        q log f=d
>q pr                    show dbtxn
>show threads            show logseg
>show locks              show logv
>show txnt               show dbvars
>show dbtxnt
>
>Angel Boles
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