* notmuch new crashing due to out of memory - how to deal with it
@ 2014-02-03 18:22 Hamish D
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From: Hamish D @ 2014-02-03 18:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: notmuch
Hello
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.
I am using notmuch 0.17 (from the debian jessie package) on debian
wheezy 64 bit.
Any pointers as to what to do to get past this point would be greatly
appreciated. If I have just deleted that many messages should I just
expect notmuch to use that much memory? I guess I could enable swap
and hope that allows enough memory to get past this operation.
I did also try running it with NOTMUCH_TALLOC_REPORT, but that didn't
produce a report (though I was unsure if I needed to rebuild notmuch
before that would work).
Happy to build notmuch from source if this might be an interesting bug
worth tracking down.
Hamish
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