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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Attic Hermit <fjdksl@cock.li>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: What is notmuch compact and should I use it?
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:37:22 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw02aevx.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a81udcw8.fsf@gmail.com>

Attic Hermit <fjdksl@cock.li> writes:

> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
>> There is some tradeoff: search should be faster after a compact, but
>> indexing many messages will likely be slower.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong, but is it meaning that it will be taking a long time to
> compact many messages, or after doing `notmuch compact`, indexing many
> new messages will be slower because of the compacted database?

The latter, according to the xapian documentation.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-16 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-16  0:58 What is notmuch compact and should I use it? Attic Hermit
2017-09-16 12:01 ` David Bremner
2017-09-16 12:52   ` Attic Hermit
2017-09-16 14:37     ` David Bremner [this message]
2017-09-16 14:46       ` Attic Hermit

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