Hi, Thanks for your help. Here is the information you requested: 2009/11/20 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>: > I'm curious how big your .notmuch directory ended up after this > operation. (And how that compares in size to the total size of your > collection of mail.) I guess you mean these directories: $ du -sh Maildir 2,8G Maildir $ cd Maildir $ du -sh .notmuch 1,1G .notmuch > That's definitely not too much mail. I think you should expect "notmuch > new" currently to index on the order of 10 - 100 messages/sec. > > Your "notmuch new" process should have been reporting a count once per > second as it progressed, (at least until things went wrong). How far did > you see that go? It started quickly, but its speed decreased, and I interrupted it at some 4000 messages, if I remember correctly. Regards Dominik