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24 Subject: notmuch in Emacs very slow
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44 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:10:04 -0000
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50 I would like to report my experience with notmuch (newbie here).
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52 I absolutely love it. I would like very much to continue using it, but I =
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53 am having a speed issue from inside Emacs.
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55 I have installed notmuch 0.9, on OS X 10.6, using of course the chert =
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56 database format. I am also using Emacs 24.0.90.1 on a quad-core Intel =
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57 Core i7 (no SSD though).
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59 I started doing 'notmuch new' on a Maildir folder with about 30000 =
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60 messages (about one fourth of my archive).
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62 At beginning notmuch was indexing about 200 msgs/sec. The more it =
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63 indexed, the slower it became. After about 20000 msgs it slowed down to =
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64 70 msgs/sec. I am not sure if that is a behaviour due to Xapian.
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66 Anyway, after it finished that first part, starting notmuch from inside =
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69 "Welcome to notmuch. You have 34,366 messages."
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71 Once I start browsing the inbox (34,208), Emacs displays the initial =
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72 screenful, but the whole list takes quite a while to load, about 50 =
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73 seconds. After that time, in the status bar I see "Top of 1.1M".
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75 That happens every time I am browsing the inbox, in order to assign =
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78 The real issue for me, though, is that scrolling down the list has a =
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79 noticeable delay, enough to make it basically unusable.
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81 Is there something I do not know that I should do to improve that speed =
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82 (either from within Emacs, or in notmuch config file?
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84 I would be very grateful for any advice or pointer on how to speed up =
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85 the notmuch experience.
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