Re: How much is not much?

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+From: Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>\r
+To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: How much is not much?\r
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+James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:\r
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+> The last time I tried to run notmuch new on my incoming archive it\r
+> crashed the box.\r
+>\r
+> But back then the archive was on an external drive, several usb-storage\r
+> and general usb bugs have been fixed since then, and my dives are all\r
+> internal now.\r
+>\r
+> So it is time for another try.\r
+>\r
+> But first, how much ram and disk should I expect to need, as a function\r
+> of the size of the maildir archive?\r
+>\r
+> (It is a tree of dirs, with maildir dirs at the leaves.  OTOH 20+ M\r
+> messages and just under 256 Go, base on du(1).)\r
+>\r
+> Trying to avoid data loss due to crashes...\r
+\r
+I can't answer to memory, but as a rule of thumb the notmuch database\r
+seems to be around the same size as the mail it indexes.  I think by any\r
+measure you have quite a lot of mail :-)\r
+\r
+Cheers,\r
+mwh\r