On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:19:58 +0000, John Fremlin <john@fremlin.org> wrote: > After the encouraging message from Sebastian. I deleted the > .notmuch/xapian dir and started again. > > It went off a good rate (300+ files/sec) and here was the final score > > Processed 494764 total files in 2h 54m 41s (47 files/sec.). > Added 226817 new messages to the database. Nice. That's much more like what I'm accustomed to getting. > This is much faster than before. As I haven't changed the storage or the > filesystem (ext4,data=ordered over encrypted aes-xts-plain), I just > don't know what made the difference. My kernel is now 2.6.32-21-generic > #32-Ubuntu and I had an older one the first try a month or so ago. Thanks for the details at least. Maybe other people having performance problems can start finding correlations. -Carl