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 36DEC431FBD for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:16:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.1 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1] 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 TyIX4atxvaHU for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:16:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Greylist: delayed 338 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:16:41 PDT Received: from ore.jhcloos.com (ore.jhcloos.com [198.147.23.85]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 133A4431FBC for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ore.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id E2A831DED8; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:11:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=ore14; t=1398622260; bh=9RolR/18OT+XoFkuHJu8ni421sfSY1te1UVXYuYzkVc=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:From; b=K4YvOGOTF9UZoh5rmYgTFNEufWp3FpNdKdahxx5oIIihHdVz7mx7fj0FVG+B8qU1B tUZIB6+/ZtIAMySeDRSHk9M1n5Lla8Y2ZmZKpspEV5AG3ZczuHLWBe6po9rqP/38Br r0jw0NFRYyF1bJK+/xAbXCjy6gnjczccw9MA7naY= Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id C668C60028; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:02:22 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: How much is not much? User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2014 James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6; url=https://jhcloos.com/public_key/0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:02:22 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Hashcash: 1:30:140427:notmuch@notmuchmail.org::V81bJirfy6aU4NlK:0000000000000000000000000000000000000onAnF 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: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:16:47 -0000 The last time I tried to run notmuch new on my incoming archive it crashed the box. But back then the archive was on an external drive, several usb-storage and general usb bugs have been fixed since then, and my dives are all internal now. So it is time for another try. But first, how much ram and disk should I expect to need, as a function of the size of the maildir archive? (It is a tree of dirs, with maildir dirs at the leaves. OTOH 20+ M messages and just under 256 Go, base on du(1).) Trying to avoid data loss due to crashes... -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6