Re: Test suite timing issues?

Subject: Re: Test suite timing issues?

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:45:41 +0200

To: David Bremner, Michael J Gruber

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Tomi Ollila


On Sat, Feb 12 2022, David Bremner wrote:

> Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 12 2022, Michael J. Gruber wrote:
>>
>> Only thing that came into mind are directory timestamps... if directory
>> (m)time is same as before notmuch will not scan it for files...
>>
>> ... following that if the granularity of directory timestamp were 1 second,
>> then it could easily happen than first one new message is not seen, and
>> next time there is one extra message to be see...
>
> What do you think about adding --full-scan to the notmuch-new invocation
> in add_message? It doesn't make any tests fail and is about the same
> speed. I need to do a few more trials, but first time through it was
> actually faster (!), maybe because the cache is hot

Does such a change hide "buggy" functionality ?

Or do we consider notmuch new buggy if it does not notice all new messages
arrived every time ?

Tomi

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