On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Jason Woofenden <ja...@jasonwoof.com> wrote: > notmuch search tag:foo is slow! > > (when my e-mail files are not already in the disk cache) > > I saw on my activity monitor applet that it was using mostly i/o, > and started to wonder if it was opening every e-mail. I little work > with strace and searching revealed that this command was opening > many many e-mail files from my maildir(s). I spent a little while > digging around in the notmuch source, and didn't see where it was > opening the email files.
It is opening every file to get a few headers to display in the search output. Istvan Marko sent an experimental patch to store these headers in the database a while ago, though as far as I know there hasn't been any progress cleaning it up for inclusion: id:"m3sjsv2kw2....@zsu.kismala.com" . _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
