>Please read the configuration file and "help ulimit" in the shell. >courier-imap shouldn't use up more than 128 MB on startup. >How large are your courier-imap processes in general (top / ps).
..considering the box does not yet have any users: root 7993 0.0 0.0 3880 424 ? S Oct13 0:00 /usr/sbin/courierlogger -pid=/var/run/courier/imapd-ssl.pid -start -name=imapd-ssl /usr/sbin/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=20 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 993 /usr/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier/courier/imaplogin /usr/bin/imapd Maildir root 7994 0.0 0.0 9056 988 ? S Oct13 0:00 /usr/sbin/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=20 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 993 /usr/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier/courier/imaplogin /usr/bin/imapd Maildir root 29789 0.0 0.0 3876 424 ? S Oct15 0:00 /usr/sbin/courierlogger -pid=/var/run/courier/imapd.pid -start -name=imapd /usr/sbin/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=20 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 143 /usr/lib/courier/courier/imaplogin /usr/bin/imapd Maildir root 29790 0.0 0.0 9056 988 ? S Oct15 0:00 /usr/sbin/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=20 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 143 /usr/lib/courier/courier/imaplogin /usr/bin/imapd Maildir >Is the hardware and/or the courier-imap setup different ? The "logical" set up is the same in every way. The old Box was a P4 1.3 with a gig of ram and standard ATA-disks, and the new one is a AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2GB and gdth RAID-system.