Dear howm users,
I wanted to take the opportunity of the recent Kenneth Wyatt's post on the
mailing list to bring the subject of howm searches (C-c , g).
In the beginning, the searches were pretty fast, but as time went by, I was
getting more and more impatient to get the results. It's not very slow, but
slow enough to discourage me from using howm as a note taking tool anymore.
First, let me show you the howm-search-path and the size of each directory in
that path (du -sh output) :
ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 12:36:54 ~ $ grep howm .emacs.d/init.el
[...]
;; search other directories in addition to `howm-directory'.
(setq howm-search-path '("~/NOTES/LOG/" "~/DATA/WIKIPAGES/"
"~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/logs/" "~/.xchat2/xchatlogs/" "~/NOTES/TXT/"
"~/DATA/BACKUPS/NEWWIKI/data/pages"))
[...]ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 12:37:45 ~ $ du -sh ~/NOTES/LOG/ ~/DATA/WIKIPAGES/
~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/logs/ ~/.xchat2/xchatlogs/ ~/NOTES/TXT/
~/DATA/BACKUPS/NEWWIKI/data/pages
3.8M /home/ychaouche/NOTES/LOG/
2.3M /home/ychaouche/DATA/WIKIPAGES/
33M /home/ychaouche/.kde/share/apps/konversation/logs/
9.4M /home/ychaouche/.xchat2/xchatlogs/
1.6M /home/ychaouche/NOTES/TXT/
1.1M /home/ychaouche/DATA/BACKUPS/NEWWIKI/data/pages
ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 12:37:50 ~ $
Approximately 50 Megs of text to search, plus the howm directroy itself which
is less than 5 megs
ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 12:39:49 ~/howm $ dush
8.0K ./2020
296K ./2019
1.7M ./2018
2.2M ./2017
4.1M .
ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 12:39:50 ~/howm $
So 55 Megs in all.
For example, a search on "dnssec" has taken approximatively 27 seconds (this
was measured very poorly with eyesight on the desktop clock, from 12:42:09 PM
to 12:41:36 PM). This is a little bit discouraging.
My questions :
1/ Is this expected ?
2/ If the search is time proportionnal to the size of the data that howm is
parsing, can I do anything to help it ?
Yassine.
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