From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com>,
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: xapian-discuss@lists.xapian.org
Subject: Re: performance problems with notmuch new
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:36:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imhup6kr.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1587211167-ner-6.432@LappyL520>
Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com> writes:
> I also suffer from bad performance of notmuch new. I used notmuch
> some years ago and notmuch new always felt instantanious. Had to stop
> using it because internet was too slow to sync my mails :/ Now (with
> better internet and a completely new setup using mbsync) indexing one
> mail takes at least 10 seconds, sometimes even more. It can go into
> minutes when I get lots of mail (~30...). When I run it after a
> reboot I can have breakfast while notmuch starts up... This is all on
> spinning rust. I thought of getting an SSD but not in the near future.
I do have at least one spinning rust configuration with about 300k
messages, and notmuch new is still fast there.
> What I observe during that time: notmuch doesn't really need much CPU.
> iotop shows constant read and write with extremely low rates, under
> 1MB/sec. So I think it might be an issue in xapian?
>
Just in case one of the xapian experts can suggest some kind of test for
why you might be seeing this behaviour, I've included the xapian list in
CC.
> If there is anything I can do to help debug this please tell me
What kind of filesystem do you have on your spinning rust?
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-20 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 15:08 performance problems with notmuch new Don Zickus
2020-04-15 16:01 ` David Bremner
2020-04-15 17:31 ` Don Zickus
2020-04-15 20:29 ` David Bremner
2020-04-20 15:25 ` Don Zickus
2020-04-24 10:36 ` David Bremner
2020-04-24 19:05 ` Don Zickus
2020-04-24 23:07 ` David Bremner
2020-04-27 12:48 ` Don Zickus
2020-04-27 12:56 ` David Bremner
2020-04-20 14:31 ` David Bremner
2020-04-20 16:26 ` Don Zickus
2020-04-18 11:59 ` Franz Fellner
2020-04-20 14:36 ` David Bremner [this message]
2020-04-22 10:46 ` Franz Fellner
2020-04-22 23:21 ` Olly Betts
2020-04-24 18:35 ` Franz Fellner
2020-04-24 23:13 ` David Bremner
2020-04-29 9:30 ` Eric Wong
2020-04-20 15:04 ` Kim Minh Kaplan
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