On 4 February 2014 08:25, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: > On Mon, 03 Feb 2014, Hamish Downer <hamish@foobacca.co.uk> wrote: >> I recently deleted almost 30000 old messages from my maildirs, and >> since I did that, notmuch new has not managed to complete. I have it >> running on a server with 1 GB of RAM, and the output is telling me >> >> Cleaned up 25515 of 29803 messages (1m 10s remaining). >> >> at the point it is killed. I have followed it up to this point with >> top and free and I can see memory usage growing to something like >> 700MB (RES) at which point the process is killed. > > Please try SIGINT, or ^C, on notmuch new before it gets killed. That > should be handled gracefully, making progress, and letting you chop up > and eventually finish the operation. Please let us know if this helps. That did it, thank you. Good to know Ctrl-C is gracefully handled. > Needless to say, we shouldn't use that much memory just to delete files > from the index. I have saved a copy of the index from before I fixed the problem. I am happy to re-run it with a rebuilt notmuch if that would be useful from the point of view of uncovering bugs. Otherwise I'll carry on as a happy notmuch user Hamish