David Mazieres <dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu> writes: > I'm using notmuch 0.17 on openbsd (from the ports tree). My problem is > that notmuch new is just unbearably slow. I don't know if it's because > I'm running the 32-bit (i386) mode or what, but it takes over one second > per mail message. E.g., this is typical of what I see when checking for > new mail: > > Processed 18 total files in 20s (0 files/sec.). > Added 5 new messages to the database. > > Linux is 10 times faster. Have you seen any similar performance issues? I didn't realize there was a port. I don't see it in my tree (amd64, recent 5.5-current). I've been building from the git repo. Anyway, yes I have seen similar on an older Mac OS X install I have at home on a G4 PowerBook. I haven't had "unbearably" slow performance on my amd64 OpenBSD installation, but there is sometimes a noticable lag. I wonder if it would help to enable softupdates on the partition where your database lives? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates Allan