From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: performance problems with notmuch new
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:56:35 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sggp84u4.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200427124800.6xkutxg2vrsecvql@redhat.com>
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 08:07:27PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
>> Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > Of course I am using this in a strange context. I am deleting emails
>> > locally and then running 'notmuch new' to clean up the database.
>> >
>> [snip]
>> > So maybe my use case is unusual and the slowness is expected.
>>
>> I'd say it's a known performance bug in notmuch that it doesn't deal
>> well with large numbers of deletions. At some point it is faster to
>> reindex the whole database from scratch.
>
> Does that mean 'notmuch dump' and 'notmuch restore'? Willing to try that.
>
Exactly.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 12:56 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 [this message]
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
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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