On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:15:39 -0500, Brett Viren <brett.viren@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Mike Hommey <mh+notmuch@glandium.org> wrote:
> But, here is one that looks I/O bound:
> 
>  notmuch tag -unread tag:inbox
> 
> I have my home directory on an encfs volume and I see it and notmuch
> competing for CPU when viewing "top".

Yes. The "notmuch tag" command currently does much more IO than it
really should.

This is Xapian bug 250. Please see:

	id:874oon4pgv.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org 

for some details and thoughts on the bug from me and some pointers on
how one could go about fixing it.

-Carl