On May 08, 2011 at 10:47 PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
$ time mairix -v -p
I bet that was my problem. I don't think I ever used -p, so there were
a lot of dead messages floating around in my db.
The times I'm getting now are pretty good. Notmuch seems to be faster,
but the times are all low enough that I don't have a problem with any of
them.
mairix -v -p
------------
real 0m17.682s
user 0m4.911s
sys 0m8.524s
notmuch new
-----------
real 0m5.152s
user 0m0.067s
sys 0m0.261s
Searches for the two showed a similar gap. Again, neither was slow
enough for me to lose any sleep over.
mairix: 0m3.044s
notmuch: 0m0.410s
This is an interesting discussion though. I might play around with
mairix a bit more again. I still see mu and notmuch having a major
advantage of being built on proper database tools. I get a lot of
errors about messages not being indexed by mairix, and that whole
recommended dance of removing the lock file before a search, etc. is
annoying as well. Furthermore, the thing that excites me about notmuch
that the others don't have is the fact that it's built as a library. An
enterprising developer could integrate it into a mail client (other than
the emacs thing they have going on) and it would be pretty great in my
mind. Remember, notmuch isn't just an indexing tool - it also lets you
tag messages and search on tags, etc.
