Re: notmuch's idea of concurrency / failing an invocation

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+To: Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,\r
+       Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: notmuch's idea of concurrency / failing an invocation\r
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+On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:35:16 -0800, Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure=\r
+.net> wrote:\r
+> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:40:25 -0500, micah anderson <micah@riseup.net> wro=\r
+te:\r
+> > Due to my harddisk in my laptop being slow (5400RPM), my notmuch\r
+> > database growing, and perhaps some fragmentation somewhere, this has\r
+> > become *incredibly* annoying for me. I am checking email every 30\r
+> > minutes, and I'm nicing and ionicing the processes so I can use my\r
+> > machine, but while those processes are running, I'm effectively locked\r
+> > out of a good portion of my email.=20\r
+>=20\r
+> I also have a very slow disk, but this is very rarely a problem for me.\r
+> I retrieve mail every 10 minutes, and the corresponding notmuch new\r
+> usually takes a minute or so.  I really haven't found it to be much of a\r
+> bother to just wait it out.\r
+\r
+Sometimes I can have several thousand messages to add/remove from the\r
+database. I know this is probably unusal, but for me its not due to\r
+system emails. I suppose if I checked my email more frequently, I'd have\r
+less to process on each run, but thats more side-stepping the\r
+concurrency issue.\r
+\r
+micah\r
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