From: micah anderson <micah@riseup.net>
To: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch's idea of concurrency / failing an invocation
In-Reply-To: <87fwsetdin.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net>
References: <87fwsetdin.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net>
User-Agent: Notmuch/0.3.1-93-g3ec9d24 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.2.1
	(i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:40:25 -0500
Message-ID: <8762taxk9y.fsf@algae.riseup.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-=";
	micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
Precedence: list

--=-=-=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:20:00 +0100, Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> =
wrote:
> Stepping away from the current code base -- what is notmuch's original
> idea of concurrency?  That is, all of us probably know that one:
>=20
>     A Xapian exception occurred opening database: Unable to get write
>       lock on /home/thomas/Mail-schwinge.name-thomas/.notmuch/xapian:
>       already locked
>=20
> I recently saw that one while using the Emacs UI (that one tried to
> remove a unread tag or similar), and in parallel a delivery to the
> notmuch DB was going on.

Due to my harddisk in my laptop being slow (5400RPM), my notmuch
database growing, and perhaps some fragmentation somewhere, this has
become *incredibly* annoying for me. I am checking email every 30
minutes, and I'm nicing and ionicing the processes so I can use my
machine, but while those processes are running, I'm effectively locked
out of a good portion of my email.=20

Usually, I switch to another task until my disk light has ceased being
solid, because the update time is too slow for me to wait.=20

Now that folders are making it in, the two remaining features that are
driving me nuts with notmuch is this one and the
verification/decryption/encryption process (replying to an encrypted
message is 12 distinct steps for me, which is discouraging me from doing
that at all).=20

I really don't want to complain, because I have no time to help in these
areas,  rather I'm interested  to know  if anyone  has any  pointers for
making this less annoying, and I'm  hoping that at some point I can free
up time to help. Perhaps I need to dump/restore my notmuch DB? Or index
less mail?

micah

--=-=-=
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
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=BAcU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--=-=-=--