Re: search by whole thread?

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 12:06:53AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > I think the reason it's rare in MUAs is that it's potentially
> > very expensive.  But I think the `thread:{subquery}' feature
> > from notmuch I discussed with Konstantin the other week[1] can
> > do what you want it to do.
> > 
> > Keep in mind, notmuch-search-terms(7) states:
> > 
> > 	The performance of such queries can vary wildly.
> > 
> > And that's for a private client tool for a single user.
> 
> Yes, when I was wondering about that, it was really for the lei side of
> things. I don't really want to run expensive queries on lore (though I'm okay
> if we can turn it off for /all/ or other very large lists).

I expect relying on timeouts in an external process will be fine
for lore, especially since some expensive queries are already
possible :x

I suppose ITIMER_REAL is better than RLIMIT_CPU since the former
accounts for I/O time.  Xapian makes a lot of small pread
syscalls so I don't see it being stuck in D-state long on SSDs.