Re: notmuch killed due to out of memory - how to move forward

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+Subject: Re: notmuch killed due to out of memory - how to move forward\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
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+On 4 February 2014 08:25, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:\r
+> On Mon, 03 Feb 2014, Hamish Downer <hamish@foobacca.co.uk> wrote:\r
+>> I recently deleted almost 30000 old messages from my maildirs, and\r
+>> since I did that, notmuch new has not managed to complete.  I have it\r
+>> running on a server with 1 GB of RAM, and the output is telling me\r
+>>\r
+>>     Cleaned up 25515 of 29803 messages (1m 10s remaining).\r
+>>\r
+>> at the point it is killed.  I have followed it up to this point with\r
+>> top and free and I can see memory usage growing to something like\r
+>> 700MB (RES) at which point the process is killed.\r
+>\r
+> Please try SIGINT, or ^C, on notmuch new before it gets killed. That\r
+> should be handled gracefully, making progress, and letting you chop up\r
+> and eventually finish the operation. Please let us know if this helps.\r
+\r
+That did it, thank you. Good to know Ctrl-C is gracefully handled.\r
+\r
+> Needless to say, we shouldn't use that much memory just to delete files\r
+> from the index.\r
+\r
+I have saved a copy of the index from before I fixed the problem.  I am\r
+happy to re-run it with a rebuilt notmuch if that would be useful from the\r
+point of view of uncovering bugs.\r
+\r
+Otherwise I'll carry on as a happy notmuch user\r
+Hamish\r