On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 08:07:27PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes: > > > > > Of course I am using this in a strange context. I am deleting emails > > locally and then running 'notmuch new' to clean up the database. > > > [snip] > > So maybe my use case is unusual and the slowness is expected. > > I'd say it's a known performance bug in notmuch that it doesn't deal > well with large numbers of deletions. At some point it is faster to > reindex the whole database from scratch. Does that mean 'notmuch dump' and 'notmuch restore'? Willing to try that. Cheers, Don _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch