Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-07-10 Thread Robert M . Münch
On 27 Jun 2023, at 1:24, Glenn Parker wrote: > I think the key point is that MailMate was not designed, much less optimized, > to be a database search engine, because it doesn’t *need* to be one. ... Everyone's use case differ of course. For me email is my working backlog and main conversation

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-06-26 Thread Glenn Parker
On 25 Jun 2023, at 10:59, Robert M. Münch wrote: Using a classical database with indexes and the mail information MM recognizes put into columns, should give mostly instant answers. The validity of this assertion will depend on a lot of factors, including the size and content of the email

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-06-26 Thread Bill Cole
On 2023-06-25 at 10:59:53 UTC-0400 (Sun, 25 Jun 2023 16:59:53 +0200) Robert M. Münch is rumored to have said: [...] One serious issue with indexing email is that email is highly divergent in data structure, and while you can do a simple index for basic standard mail metadata, "full text" and

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-06-25 Thread Robert M . Münch
On 16 Jun 2023, at 17:17, Bill Cole wrote: > MM uses an indexing mechanism that appears to be custom-designed for the > specific purpose of searching email. You can see the artifacts of that in > ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Database.noindex/. That looks much like a file-based

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-06-25 Thread Robert M . Münch
On 16 Jun 2023, at 12:28, aisrael wrote: > FWIW, I searched a word in 100 000 messages and it took 2 seconds. I use > release 5937. It takes about 6s-8s for me and I have about 300.000 emails. However, such searches utilizing full-text indexing and normal indexing should really be instant

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-06-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 2023-06-16 at 06:26:11 UTC-0400 (Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:26:11 +0200) Robert M. Münch is rumored to have said: > I have the feeling the search is taking considerable longer than in the past. > > IMO MM flexible, easy to use search is a key USP. > > @Benny: Would be nice to speed things up

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-06-16 Thread aisrael
FWIW, I searched a word in 100 000 messages and it took 2 seconds. I use release 5937. Alain On 16 Jun 2023, at 12:26, Robert M. Münch wrote: I have the feeling the search is taking considerable longer than in the past. IMO MM flexible, easy to use search is a key USP. @Benny: Would be

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-06-16 Thread Robert M . Münch
I have the feeling the search is taking considerable longer than in the past. IMO MM flexible, easy to use search is a key USP. @Benny: Would be nice to speed things up (again). Not sure how MM does searching, but using SQLite for full-text indexing, or special indexing should help a lot. --

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2022-05-03 Thread Patrik Fältström via mailmate
On 3 May 2022, at 17:00, Ben Lee-Cohen wrote: > I believe that is the case, but I’ve got 32GB of ram and SSD storage on a 3.2 > GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 — I’m not sure how I can improve the local hardware > side of things (unless M1 performance is dramatically better, in which case…). Move old

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2022-05-03 Thread Fredrik Jonsson
Ben Lee-Cohen 2022-05-03 15:27 wrote: > I’ve got ~600k messages across two accounts, and performing a “simple” search > (e.g. using search bar, typing “mailmate”, hitting enter) takes about ~10-20 > seconds to get results. Is there anything I can do to improve that initial > time to results

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2022-05-03 Thread Robert Wall
>>> Hi, I’ve got ~600k messages across two accounts, and performing a “simple” >>> search (e.g. using search bar, typing “mailmate”, hitting enter) takes >>> about ~10-20 seconds to get results. Is there anything I can do to improve >>> that initial time to results short of deleting a bunch of

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2022-05-03 Thread Ben Lee-Cohen
I believe that is the case, but I’ve got 32GB of ram and SSD storage on a 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 — I’m not sure how I can improve the local hardware side of things (unless M1 performance is dramatically better, in which case…). On 3 May 2022, at 10:51, Raza Rizvi wrote: > On 3 May 2022,

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2022-05-03 Thread Raza Rizvi
On 3 May 2022, at 14:27, Ben Lee-Cohen wrote: > Hi, I’ve got ~600k messages across two accounts, and performing a “simple” > search (e.g. using search bar, typing “mailmate”, hitting enter) takes about > ~10-20 seconds to get results. Is there anything I can do to improve that > initial time