On Friday, January 17, 2014 3:07:02 AM UTC-5, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>
> Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> >> Perhaps I'm overthinking this whole thing, but I'd be curious to hear 
> >> some best-practices for people with >100k emails that don't want to 
> >> wait 30 seconds for 'mu index' each time they update. 
> > 
> > 30 secs? That seems extremely long; after the first indexing, it only 
> updates 
> > messages that have changed, ie. 
> > 
> > % time mu index 
> > indexing messages under /home/djcb/Maildir [/home/djcb/.mu/xapian] 
> > - processing mail; processed: 53325; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0 
> > cleaning up messages [/home/djcb/.mu/xapian] 
> > - processing mail; processed: 53339; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0 
> > elapsed: 1 second(s), ~ 53339 msg/s 
> > \ processing mail; processed: 53339; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0 
> > elapsed: 1 second(s), ~ 53339 msg/s 
> > /home/djcb/Sources/mu/mu/mu index  0.32s user 0.48s system 82% cpu 0.974 
> total 
> > 
> > This is on an i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 8G memory, and Fedora 20 
> > (kernel 3.12). 
>
> I'm also seeing 25s, albeit with 250k messages: 
>
> \ processing mail; processed: 251100; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0 
> cleaning up messages [/Users/schmitta/.mu/xapian] 
> - processing mail; processed: 250403; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0 
> elapsed: 10 second(s), ~ 25040 msg/s 
> \ processing mail; processed: 250403; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0 
> elapsed: 26 second(s), ~ 9630 msg/s 
>        26.71 real         3.60 user        22.13 sys 
>
>
> This is an a MacBook Air on OS X 10.9.1 (with SSD hard drive, 4G memory, 
> 1.8 GHz Inter Core i7). 
>
>

I'm on a MacBook Pro from 2009, OS X 10.9.1, 5400 RPM 1 TB HD, 8 GB memory, 
2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo.

I think the problem is the 5400 RPM disk.

~ $ time mu index
indexing messages under /Users/mankoff/Maildir [/Users/mankoff/.mu/xapian]
| processing mail; processed: 93075; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0
cleaning up messages [/Users/mankoff/.mu/xapian]
| processing mail; processed: 103498; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0
elapsed: 7 second(s), ~ 14785 msg/s
/ processing mail; processed: 103498; updated/new: 0, cleaned-up: 0
elapsed: 19 second(s), ~ 5447 msg/s

real 0m20.207s
user 0m1.917s
sys 0m11.395s

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