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