"Internal disk space low" warning question

Last night I got the blinking amber light with the warning that Time Capsule's "Internal disk space is low". My hard drive is 1TB and has 375 GB of remaining space. My time capsule is 1TB and is used only for backing up my computer. How do I remedy this situation? Shouldn't I still have 375 GB left on my Time Capsule if it's just mirroring my hard drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Bob, thank you for your answer! When will TC start deleting old backups and the green light come back again and amber light stop flashing?
I have the same problem and tried resolving it through deleting some backups that i did not need. I have 1Tb Time Capsule with all latest firmware and recently got the amber light blinking and the message that the "Internal disk space is low. Your Time capsule is low on storage space". I checked and I have something like 58 Gb left. So I deleted some big files that I did not really need on TC via Time Machine interface - "delete all backups of ...". It should have freed up additionally more than 100Gb, but when I checked again the remaining disk space has not changed from 58Gb. I read in forums about how to get this free space by compacting sparsebundle via "hdiutil compact..." command in terminal, as discussed here - http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=84284
Is this the only way to free space on TC? Is there an easier way to get it? Should I go for it or should I just wait until TC starts deleting old files, not to mess with the whole process?
Thank you in advance.

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