From: Hamish Downer <hamish@foobacca.co.uk>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: notmuch killed due to out of memory - how to move forward
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:18:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOxvSbfWu3M=M1PyFrZcUhszjW0rpb0wYOiia+3sSSd9AGqD4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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 0.17-3) 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? (Unfortunately the company
supplying the server does not allow swap to be enabled so I can't fudge
it that way)
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
(PS sorry to moderators - I subscribed and then sent this email from the
wrong address a couple of times)
next reply other threads:[~2014-02-03 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-03 22:18 Hamish Downer [this message]
2014-02-04 8:25 ` notmuch killed due to out of memory - how to move forward Jani Nikula
2014-02-04 9:01 ` Kushal Kumaran
2014-02-04 18:03 ` Hamish Downer
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