notmuch painfully slow
Hi Pieter, On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:18:09 +0200, Pieter Praet wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:14:52 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > > > as time goes, notmuch is really becoming slower and slower. It may be > > normal as it has more and more messages to "track" but I am not sure it > > is that normal give these numbers: [SNIP] > > What is happening here ? Is there any maintenance task I should do onto > > my mail collection ? > > > > Thank you for your help. > > Have you switched your Xapian database from flint to chert yet? This > really makes a huge difference in responsiveness. Obviously, no, I did not. I even did not know about that ;) What's the story with this and what's the way to do this exactly ? Thank you. /Xavier
notmuch painfully slow
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:18:09 +0200, Pieter Praet wrote: > Have you switched your Xapian database from flint to chert yet? This > really makes a huge difference in responsiveness. Is this the switch from xapian 1.0.x to 1.2.x or are further steps necessary? Are there instructions on how to do the switch? For the mailing list archive a link would be great - a quick search for 'xapian flint chert' was unsuccessful. In case there are no instructions yet, I'm happy to conclude what is gathered here and add it to notmuch's webpage. -- Florian Friesdorf GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: flo at chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20110423/08bd844c/attachment.pgp>
notmuch painfully slow
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:18:52 +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:18:09 +0200, Pieter Praet wrote: > Is this the switch from xapian 1.0.x to 1.2.x or are further steps > necessary? > > Are there instructions on how to do the switch? For the mailing list > archive a link would be great - a quick search for 'xapian flint chert' > was unsuccessful. Notmuch has been very slow for me, and I decided to give cert a try. A search turned up this message: http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001105.html as well as: http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/004048.html It seems you have to rebuild the database with "XAPIAN_PREFER_CHERT=1 notmuch new" I have done this, and it does seemed to have sped up notmuch. --Simon -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20110423/f1a6480b/attachment.pgp>
Re: notmuch painfully slow
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:18:52 +0200, Florian Friesdorf f...@chaoflow.net wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:18:09 +0200, Pieter Praet pie...@praet.org wrote: Is this the switch from xapian 1.0.x to 1.2.x or are further steps necessary? Are there instructions on how to do the switch? For the mailing list archive a link would be great - a quick search for 'xapian flint chert' was unsuccessful. Notmuch has been very slow for me, and I decided to give cert a try. A search turned up this message: http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001105.html as well as: http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/004048.html It seems you have to rebuild the database with XAPIAN_PREFER_CHERT=1 notmuch new I have done this, and it does seemed to have sped up notmuch. --Simon pgplZXFb40o8G.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
