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31 From: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
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32 To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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33 Subject: Re: notmuch painfully slow
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38 Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:18:09 +0200
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57 On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:14:52 +0200, Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> wrote:
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60 > as time goes, notmuch is really becoming slower and slower. It may be
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61 > normal as it has more and more messages to "track" but I am not sure it
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62 > is that normal give these numbers:
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64 > - notmuch version: notmuch 0.5-133-gc509598
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65 > - notmuch count: 18475
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66 > - uname: Linux kcals 2.6.33.4-smp #2 SMP Wed May 12 22:47:36 CDT 2010
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67 > i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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68 > - Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/144 28377
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70 > total used free shared buffers cached
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71 > Mem: 992 881 111 0 253 500
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72 > -/+ buffers/cache: 127 865
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75 > This is on a Slackware GNU/linux system on a Eee PC 901 (thus SSD
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76 > storage). I am using my computer *exclusively* in the virtual linux
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77 > console (tty) and 99% of my tasks are done through GNU Emacs (dunno if
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78 > is of any interest for this problem though).
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80 > My sync script is taking really long time to achieve, updating one mail
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81 > at a time is also really slow (several seconds). In the worst cases,
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82 > updating my collection can take upto 15 minutes and updating just one
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83 > message can take up to the minute too !
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85 > What is happening here ? Is there any maintenance task I should do onto
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86 > my mail collection ?
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88 > Thank you for your help.
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90 Have you switched your Xapian database from flint to chert yet? This
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91 really makes a huge difference in responsiveness.
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94 > _______________________________________________
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