Eventsubsystem down! Production down! help

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in eventsubd.log...our messages table has over 240k rows and filled up our oracle database! can this table be cleared? archived? please help!

12:16:22.812 ERROR [server-24] - Failed to make message persistent
org.exolab.jms.persistence.PersistenceException:
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01653: unable to extend table METADATA.MESSAGES by 1024 in tablespace METADATA

at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134)
at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTIoer.processError(TTIoer.java:289)
at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.Oall7.receive(Oall7.java:582)
at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.doOall7(TTC7Protocol.java:1986)
at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.parseExecuteFetch(TTC7Protocol.java:1144)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.executeNonQuery(OracleStatement.java:2152)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteOther(OracleStatement.java:2035)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:2876)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeUpdate(OraclePreparedStatement.java:609)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:233)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:233)
at org.exolab.jms.persistence.Messages.add(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.persistence.RDBMSAdapter.addMessage(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.messagemgr.MessageMgr.addPersistentMessage(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.messagemgr.MessageMgr.add(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.server.JmsServerSession.sendMessage(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.server.mipc.IpcJmsSessionConnection.sendMessage(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.server.mipc.IpcJmsSessionConnection.notify(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.server.mipc.IpcJmsReceiver.notify(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.server.mipc.IpcServerChannel.run(Unknown Source)