Best solution for this problem is to stop hpasm deamon.
/opt/compaq/hpasm/etc/hpasm stop
and then cd /var/spool/compaq/
compress cma.log file using
gzip -9 cma.log
and then restart the hpasm deamon.
Durga Prasad Kala
System Admin Linux
AT&T Linux Support
durga.kala@gmail.com