Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com> writes: > I also suffer from bad performance of notmuch new. I used notmuch > some years ago and notmuch new always felt instantanious. Had to stop > using it because internet was too slow to sync my mails :/ Now (with > better internet and a completely new setup using mbsync) indexing one > mail takes at least 10 seconds, sometimes even more. It can go into > minutes when I get lots of mail (~30...). When I run it after a > reboot I can have breakfast while notmuch starts up... This is all on > spinning rust. I thought of getting an SSD but not in the near future. I do have at least one spinning rust configuration with about 300k messages, and notmuch new is still fast there. > What I observe during that time: notmuch doesn't really need much CPU. > iotop shows constant read and write with extremely low rates, under > 1MB/sec. So I think it might be an issue in xapian? > Just in case one of the xapian experts can suggest some kind of test for why you might be seeing this behaviour, I've included the xapian list in CC. > If there is anything I can do to help debug this please tell me What kind of filesystem do you have on your spinning rust? d _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch