Thanks so much...

But i ran a checkpoint and cleared off the junk transaction from the log which allowed me to shrink the fiile as well without much problems.

I have run...

thanks Nicholas,

I have got it working now. I increased the inactivity threshold for the replication monitor to about 45 minutes instead of 10 or 20 minutes. and aparently it has...

Thanks a lot John

I found the problem why the distribution database grew so rapildy and so big. Actually i had 6 osql.exe running on the subscriber server, which aparently were...

Thanks John,

FYI its a transactional replication and is a simple recovery model.

I did try shrinking the log file of the distribution database using DBCC. But it did not help much....