Re: Remote xapian database

Subject: Re: Remote xapian database

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:15:26 +0400

To: David Bremner

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Roman Kravets


Dear David,

It is not problem. Storage - it low cost resources.
I have problem with CPU utilization.
When I use "notmuch new" my CPU used 100% :(
If can I move database to another server, it remove load from my slow computer.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 02:50:15PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> admin@softded.net writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Xapian have remote database mode:
> > http://xapian.org/docs/remote.html
> >
> > Do you plan use it in future? I have more then 8 million letters and my
> > xapian db use 50 gb store :)
> >
> > If I can use remote database, I will move database to external server
> > from my work PC (with Pentium 4) it will be very fast! :)
> 
> One thing to keep in mind is that there are several places in the code
> where mail files are opened directly, so just having remote access to
> the xapian database is not going to be enough, unless you want to have a
> local copy of the messages, which is almost surely larger than the
> database.

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