From: Eric Gillespie Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:04:17 +0000 (+1700) Subject: nmh + notmuch: expected to work? X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e976b7456c413a4a1dc13dfa6a59f073b5187d07;p=notmuch-archives.git nmh + notmuch: expected to work? --- diff --git a/81/15463d5af58c773e18487fb446849c5af8b9fd b/81/15463d5af58c773e18487fb446849c5af8b9fd new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0647a4cd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/81/15463d5af58c773e18487fb446849c5af8b9fd @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9942431FBC + for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:13:10 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id C2M+11-XY9Yw for ; + Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:13:06 -0700 (PDT) +X-Greylist: delayed 529 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; + Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:13:06 PDT +Received: from master.diplodocus.org (master.diplodocus.org [50.247.106.229]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AAE431FAF + for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:13:06 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from wundagore (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by master.diplodocus.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EECFB4715; + Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:04:17 -0700 (PDT) +From: Eric Gillespie +To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: nmh + notmuch: expected to work? +X-Mailer: MH-E 8.3.1; nmh 1.6-RC3; GNU Emacs 24.3.1 +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Content-ID: <24055.1402437857.1@wundagore> +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:04:17 -0700 +Message-ID: <24056.1402437857@wundagore> +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:13:11 -0000 + +I'm a long-time nmh user, and I heard notmuch was supposed to +handle mh folders, so I gave it a shot. + +It's crazy slow. The first 'notmuch new' took 4 hours, but maybe +that's expected. However, every 'notmuch new' takes 4 - 10 +hours. The only time it completes faster is if I immediately +re-run it without incorporating new mail. In that case, it +completes in 0.8s - 38s, which is quite reasonable for my mail. + +I have 18.5 GB, 1,058,370 messages in 315 directories. + +=46rom the messages it prints, apparently any directory that +changes (receives a new message) has to have all its files +indexed from scratch. What?! + +# re-index after some new mail (< 1000; not 704083!) +Processed 704083 total files in 11h 7m 48s (17 files/sec.). +Added 701791 new messages to the database. Removed 701332 messages. Detect= +ed 2136 file renames. + +# re-index again, no new mail +Processed 60 total files in 40s (1 files/sec.). +No new mail. + +# incorporate 1 new message +Processed 9181 total files in 7m 54s (19 files/sec.). +Added 9071 new messages to the database. Removed 9071 messages. Detected 1= +2 file renames. + +# incorporate 1 new message +Processed 111 total files in almost no time. +Added 1 new message to the database. Detected 12 file renames. + +# incorporate 1 new message +Processed 757 total files in 44s (17 files/sec.). +Added 645 new messages to the database. Removed 645 messages. Detected 14 = +file renames. + +There haven't been any renames at all, so I don't know what 2136, +12, or 14 renames notmuch is talking about. I wasn't reading or +replying to any mail at all, only adding new mail and running +notmuch new. + +I already thought mairix was slow, but in comparison, it's +blazing fast. I think notmuch indexes much more so the +comparison is not entirely fair, but at least it's usable. + +mairix takes 1h15m to process the same mail from scratch. +Subsequent updates take from 19-22s. + +Also the mairix db is much smaller, though notmuch's is about the +size the documentation says to expect: + +0 ~% du -ms .mairix mh/.notmuch +447 .mairix +15712 mh/.notmuch + +Is this expected? Is this attributable to some bug in how +notmuch handles mh folders, or does this happen with maildirs? + +Thanks.