From: Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 21:49:01 +0000 (+1200)
Subject: Re: How much is not much?
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Re: How much is not much?
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+James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
+
+> The last time I tried to run notmuch new on my incoming archive it
+> crashed the box.
+>
+> But back then the archive was on an external drive, several usb-storage
+> and general usb bugs have been fixed since then, and my dives are all
+> internal now.
+>
+> So it is time for another try.
+>
+> But first, how much ram and disk should I expect to need, as a function
+> of the size of the maildir archive?
+>
+> (It is a tree of dirs, with maildir dirs at the leaves.  OTOH 20+ M
+> messages and just under 256 Go, base on du(1).)
+>
+> Trying to avoid data loss due to crashes...
+
+I can't answer to memory, but as a rule of thumb the notmuch database
+seems to be around the same size as the mail it indexes.  I think by any
+measure you have quite a lot of mail :-)
+
+Cheers,
+mwh