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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Subject: slowdown in notmuch perf suite with xapian 1.3.5\r
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+I hadn't noticed any interactive slowdown, but when I got around to\r
+running the notmuch performance suite, there seems to be some noticable\r
+slowdown with the glass backend (default in Xapian 1.3.5) compared to\r
+chert (using xapian 1.2.22)\r
+\r
+These tests are on an older i7 with 12G of RAM and an SSD. I'm\r
+reasonable confident they are CPU bound. One curious thing is the\r
+increase in system time in the glass case. It also looks like the glass\r
+backend is doing a lot more I/O, which could be related.\r
+\r
+The current notmuch performance corpus has about 200k documents,\r
+totalling about 3.5G. Unfortunately each number here represents only a\r
+single run. I did rerun the tests with the glass backend, and the\r
+variation was reasonably small.\r
+\r
+Chert\r
+=====\r
+\r
+T00-new.sh: Testing notmuch new [0.4 large]\r
+ Wall(s) Usr(s) Sys(s) Res(K) In/Out(512B)\r
+ Initial notmuch new 669.06 639.78 21.42 323684 3576/9360440\r
+ notmuch new #2 0.46 0.00 0.00 8240 3568/200\r
+ notmuch new #3 0.01 0.00 0.00 7916 0/8\r
+ notmuch new #4 0.01 0.01 0.00 8008 0/8\r
+ notmuch new #5 0.01 0.00 0.00 8040 0/8\r
+ notmuch new #6 0.01 0.00 0.00 8040 0/8\r
+\r
+T01-dump-restore.sh: Testing dump and restore [0.4 large]\r
+ Wall(s) Usr(s) Sys(s) Res(K) In/Out(512B)\r
+ load nmbug tags 5.85 2.64 0.10 11280 1376/40496\r
+ dump * 7.45 6.51 0.94 25272 104/27928\r
+ restore * 7.55 7.15 0.39 8180 0/0\r
+\r
+T02-tag.sh: Testing tagging [0.4 large]\r
+ Wall(s) Usr(s) Sys(s) Res(K) In/Out(512B)\r
+ tag * +new_tag 200.13 183.01 7.08 38628 264/1664552\r
+ tag * +existing_tag 0.00 0.00 0.00 8356 0/0\r
+ tag * -existing_tag 153.47 145.00 4.02 34928 0/1626320\r
+ tag * -missing_tag 0.00 0.00 0.00 8252 0/0\r
+\r
+Glass\r
+=====\r
+\r
+T00-new.sh: Testing notmuch new [0.4 large]\r
+ Wall(s) Usr(s) Sys(s) Res(K) In/Out(512B)\r
+ Initial notmuch new 949.53 697.05 206.98 277436 1290744/21767856\r
+ notmuch new #2 2.12 0.01 0.02 8204 2552/160\r
+ notmuch new #3 0.01 0.00 0.00 8216 0/8\r
+ notmuch new #4 0.01 0.00 0.00 8192 0/8\r
+ notmuch new #5 0.01 0.00 0.00 8216 0/8\r
+ notmuch new #6 0.01 0.00 0.00 8144 0/8\r
+\r
+T01-dump-restore.sh: Testing dump and restore [0.4 large]\r
+ Wall(s) Usr(s) Sys(s) Res(K) In/Out(512B)\r
+ load nmbug tags 10.78 4.06 3.59 11376 600/39832\r
+ dump * 7.44 6.52 0.91 25296 0/27928\r
+ restore * 7.74 7.24 0.48 8740 0/0\r
+\r
+T02-tag.sh: Testing tagging [0.4 large]\r
+ Wall(s) Usr(s) Sys(s) Res(K) In/Out(512B)\r
+ tag * +new_tag 481.78 278.80 196.89 39448 0/1897360\r
+ tag * +existing_tag 0.00 0.00 0.00 8496 0/0\r
+ tag * -existing_tag 449.58 242.65 202.74 35456 0/2073520\r
+ tag * -missing_tag 0.00 0.00 0.00 8440 0/0\r
+\r
+\r