From: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch painfully slow
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:18:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v0u59by.fsf@A7GMS.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27hamz82r.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:14:52 +0200, Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as time goes, notmuch is really becoming slower and slower. It may be
> normal as it has more and more messages to "track" but I am not sure it
> is that normal give these numbers:
>
> - notmuch version: notmuch 0.5-133-gc509598
> - notmuch count: 18475
> - uname: Linux kcals 2.6.33.4-smp #2 SMP Wed May 12 22:47:36 CDT 2010
> i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> - Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/144 28377
> - Memory:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 992 881 111 0 253 500
> -/+ buffers/cache: 127 865
> Swap: 506 0 505
>
> This is on a Slackware GNU/linux system on a Eee PC 901 (thus SSD
> storage). I am using my computer *exclusively* in the virtual linux
> console (tty) and 99% of my tasks are done through GNU Emacs (dunno if
> is of any interest for this problem though).
>
> My sync script is taking really long time to achieve, updating one mail
> at a time is also really slow (several seconds). In the worst cases,
> updating my collection can take upto 15 minutes and updating just one
> message can take up to the minute too !
>
> What is happening here ? Is there any maintenance task I should do onto
> my mail collection ?
>
> Thank you for your help.
Have you switched your Xapian database from flint to chert yet? This
really makes a huge difference in responsiveness.
> /Xavier
> _______________________________________________
> notmuch mailing list
> notmuch@notmuchmail.org
> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
Peace
-Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-22 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-22 14:14 notmuch painfully slow Xavier Maillard
2011-04-22 20:18 ` Pieter Praet [this message]
2011-04-23 5:18 ` Florian Friesdorf
2011-04-23 6:41 ` Simon Fondrie-Teitler
2011-04-23 7:20 ` Xavier Maillard
2011-04-24 8:13 ` Pieter Praet
2011-04-26 20:04 ` Florian Friesdorf
2011-05-05 21:55 ` Xavier Maillard
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://notmuchmail.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=871v0u59by.fsf@A7GMS.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me \
--to=pieter@praet.org \
--cc=notmuch@notmuchmail.org \
--cc=xma@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://yhetil.org/notmuch.git/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).