From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A23431FBD for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:04:33 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.699 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.699 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ebrKOctANQZ0 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:04:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-qa0-f51.google.com (mail-qa0-f51.google.com [209.85.216.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C0CB431FBC for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:04:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-qa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id f11so12715014qae.24 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:04:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=IXen1FRWAMAMb8KouLrxuoeDjwU/7bWF5D6FJmnDGZ4=; b=P0tfRP7M7fKdFJTrwPUZn10iPzXwYflafDemm5g9GytFasRY64jJbcPXG/SQMncihJ 2Wu/K9QK9+BE+aMLtXftnHoHarDDuhvkel/JzzTGuwWy534pr/64S6E0uqk1uNw0dy/w CzqMECLO5vs4ohgq3QXUu2EvKXolOIDapSq6DsVPOdKfEFLzZvui4HdGZy0p0N9Dzapt iqFzSEEM2ooDt+Zdus2x0J3AFqjrCIRewAOeClVEmFFPT7zHMAmFIeIAFKvoT/vdK1nC xGNZNHTeT4C1nU30cU154I22axFHv030gaKPLHOenmGzddSabC9rAv/KmPNDeOjP1zPj +Jug== X-Received: by 10.140.37.146 with SMTP id r18mr64619747qgr.61.1391537065313; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:04:25 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: dmishd@gmail.com Received: by 10.140.49.83 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:03:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87r47jcmj6.fsf@nikula.org> References: <87r47jcmj6.fsf@nikula.org> From: Hamish Downer Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:03:45 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9F-3oe94imF0wQfJA067Yr45Vv4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: notmuch killed due to out of memory - how to move forward To: Jani Nikula Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:04:33 -0000 On 4 February 2014 08:25, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Mon, 03 Feb 2014, Hamish Downer wrote: >> I recently deleted almost 30000 old messages from my maildirs, and >> since I did that, notmuch new has not managed to complete. I have it >> running on a server with 1 GB of RAM, and the output is telling me >> >> Cleaned up 25515 of 29803 messages (1m 10s remaining). >> >> at the point it is killed. I have followed it up to this point with >> top and free and I can see memory usage growing to something like >> 700MB (RES) at which point the process is killed. > > Please try SIGINT, or ^C, on notmuch new before it gets killed. That > should be handled gracefully, making progress, and letting you chop up > and eventually finish the operation. Please let us know if this helps. That did it, thank you. Good to know Ctrl-C is gracefully handled. > Needless to say, we shouldn't use that much memory just to delete files > from the index. I have saved a copy of the index from before I fixed the problem. I am happy to re-run it with a rebuilt notmuch if that would be useful from the point of view of uncovering bugs. Otherwise I'll carry on as a happy notmuch user Hamish