Re: performance problems with notmuch new

Subject: Re: performance problems with notmuch new

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:31:38 -0400

To: David Bremner

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Don Zickus


On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 01:01:52PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > Tips for debugging this?
> >
> > I ran the notmuch performance/time-test, but after 15 minutes of waiting for
> > the initial notmuch new to finish, I gave up and aborted.
> 
> You can try one of the smaller corpus sizes
> 
> $ make OPTIONS=--small time-test
> 
> runs in about 30s here (i7 4770 / SSD).  Replacing --small with --medium
> takes about 10M (so a superlinear slowdown in wall clock time, since
> that represents a 10x scale-up in the corpus size.).

Hmm, for me --small was 35s and --medium was 32 minutes.  This is on a
i7-9750H / nvme.  I would expect numbers similar to yours.

Cheers,
Don

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