Hello courier Geeks,

Sinc I run Debian/Sarge and can currently not upgrade my Intranet-Server (needs heavy reprogramming) so I have installed a TestSystem for migrating the courier stuff on a reserver machine...

Hardware: P2/366 512 MByte ICP GDT 6128RD (RayDyne, Raid-5) 2 x 9 GByte System (1st chanel, Raid-1) 7 x 9 GByte Maildir (2nd chanel, Raid-5, 48 user) BSIZE=4096, INODES ~ 11.000.000, MESSAGES ~ 8.5 mio TEAC CD-532S (2rd chanel)

The harddrives (LVD/SE) are NEW and never used but older then 5 years.

OS: Debian 4.0 Etch

My courier-imap is version 4.1.1.

Now if I connect to the courier server I get on its console:

----8<----------------------------------------------------------------- __alloc_pagee: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) __alloc_pagee: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) __alloc_pagee: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) __alloc_pagee: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) __alloc_pagee: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) VM: killink process imapd ----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------

Wierd thing, since I get the same error on my AMD Sempron 2200+ (3 Gbyte memory) running Sarge too.

Where can ths message come from and WHY?

Note 1:

If I want to open a maildfolder using "mutt", I can connect, it read the mails in, and then I must wait, wait, wait... several minutes and my harddrives in the Courier-Server are spinning like the hell. The Load-Average is arround 1.8 to 2,7.

Note 2: Installing FAM is NO SOLUTION since it increase the Load-Average to over 12 and my System is for hours not more responsive.

Any solutions?