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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:29:07 +0100
From: Arvid Picciani <aep@exys.org>
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] indexing mail?
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On 01/23/2010 07:09 AM, Carl Worth wrote:

> Your original patch was sent as "application/octet-stream" which made it
> awkward to read, (I would have to manually save it rather than just
> being able to read it within emacs with notmuch).

uum yeah thanks. I'll try to figure out how this works.

> But I've since pushed a separate patch to fix this bug. Please give it a
> try and let me know what you think.

will do later.

>> It takes around half an hour for my 60K mail on reiserfs, but it did take 10 minutes
>> already on ext4.
>
> What operation is taking that long?

notmuch new, rescanning my entire 60k mails on every single new message 
i get.

>> I suggest having a different approach to feed new mail in, such as:
>>
>> for i in (fetchmail)
>> do
>>      notmuch new<  $i
>> done
>
> I'm still not sure what is slow for you,

scanning 60k mails. :D  That's not fixable, other then by not doing that.

but I'm also not sure how the above would help.

It doesn't scan all 60K individually but only the single new one.



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Arvid
Asgaard Technologies