Re: performance problems with notmuch new

Subject: Re: performance problems with notmuch new

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:07:27 -0300

To: Don Zickus

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: David Bremner


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.

d
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