Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > There's also another patch coming to document the `--jobs|-j' CLI > switch for `lei up' and `lei q', but trying `-j ,1' may help you > if it's parallelism. Note the comma before `1', it accepts > `-j $Q,$W' since $Q is the number of query processes and $W is > the number of LeiToMail writers.
-------8<----- From: Eric Wong <[email protected]> Subject: [PATCH] doc: document --jobs for `lei q' and `lei up' These may be helpful for users on slow disks or limited IMAP connections. --- Documentation/lei-q.pod | 17 +++++++++++++++++ Documentation/lei-up.pod | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/lei-q.pod b/Documentation/lei-q.pod index 2f0c3bc6..8134223e 100644 --- a/Documentation/lei-q.pod +++ b/Documentation/lei-q.pod @@ -124,6 +124,23 @@ of the same thread. TODO: Warning: this flag may become persistent and saved in lei/store unless an MUA unflags it! (Behavior undecided) +=item --jobs=QUERY_WORKERS[,WRITE_WORKERS] +=item --jobs=,WRITE_WORKERS + +=item -j QUERY_WORKERS[,WRITE_WORKERS] +=item -j ,WRITE_WORKERS + +Set the number of query and write worker processes for parallelism. + +C<QUERY_WORKERS> defaults to the number of CPUs available, but 4 per +remote (HTTP/HTTPS) host. + +C<WRITE_WORKERS> defaults to the number of CPUs available for Maildir, +IMAP/IMAPS, and mbox* destinations. + +Omitting C<QUERY_WORKERS> but leaving the comma (C<,>) allows +one to only set C<WRITE_WORKERS> + =item --dedupe=STRATEGY =item -d STRATEGY diff --git a/Documentation/lei-up.pod b/Documentation/lei-up.pod index ac644a96..3b7c6f46 100644 --- a/Documentation/lei-up.pod +++ b/Documentation/lei-up.pod @@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ specified via C<lei q --only>. =item --mua=CMD -C<--lock>, C<--alert>, and C<--mua> are all supported and +=item --jobs QUERY_WORKERS[,WRITE_WORKERS] + +C<--lock>, C<--alert>, C<--mua>, and C<--jobs> are all supported and documented in L<lei-q(1)>. C<--mua> is incompatible with C<--all>.
