Re: Notmuch indexing takes too long

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+To: Ondrej Jombik <jombik@platon.org>,  notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+References: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211090349430.19531@athena.platon.sk>\r
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+Subject: Re: Notmuch indexing takes too long\r
+Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:34:37 +0000\r
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+Hi Ondrej,\r
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+Quoting Ondrej Jombik (2012-11-09 02:58:09)\r
+> I am trying to move from mairix to some better solution. mairix has been\r
+> working really well for me, but it had some limitations.\r
+> =\r
+\r
+> I decided to give a try to notmuch, but I has been suprised with\r
+> estimated indexing time:\r
+> =\r
+\r
+>      Processed 4157 of 822462 files (10h 3m 42s remaining).\r
+> =\r
+\r
+> At the beggining when there was 11 hours estimate I simply thought that\r
+> those numbers are wrong. But they are not. This is really going to take\r
+> that long. I could not believe that you all wait that long to index your\r
+> maildirs:)\r
+> =\r
+\r
+> Also if I understand correctly the concept, whenever I want to\r
+> regenerate database, I have to move old away and create new one,\r
+> correct? mairix worked that way that you run it and it updated its own\r
+> database. Is it possible with notmuch as well? I simply do not want to\r
+> wait 10+ hours for every database regeneration, thought I am willing to\r
+> wait that long for initial indexing.\r
+\r
+Notmuch does incremental idnex updates once the initial index is build.\r
+The initial indexing takes a while, depending on the number of mails you ha=\r
+ve\r
+but 10 *hours* seems a little off. For me its ~5mins on the hdd and <2 on a=\r
+ ssd.\r
+\r
+> My last question is related to notmuch and Alpine. Alpine is\r
+> a IMAP/Maildir e-mail client based on old PINE. I get used to that so\r
+> much that I cannot move away (to Mutt, for example). Is there anyone who\r
+> uses notmuch with Alpine and created some scripts and/or key-bindings?\r
+\r
+You might want to have a look at notmuchfs: https://github.com/tsto/notmuch=\r
+fs\r
+Also, there are a few other MUAs based on notmuch:\r
+Check out http://notmuchmail.org/frontends/\r
+\r
+Have fun,\r
+/p\r