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+Subject: How much is not much?\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
+-JimC\r
+-- \r
+James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6\r