On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Carl Worth <cwo...@cworth.org> wrote: > Hi Oliver, welcome to notmuch! > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:30:48 +0000, Oliver Charles > <oliver.g.char...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> I've installed the latest notmuch from Git at this time of writing, >> along with Xapian from SVN head. However, just tagging a single thread >> with only one message seems to take too long: >> >> $ time notmuch tag +dissertation thread:7dc536441e6deade4256a46d46451221 >> >> real 0m0.812s >> user 0m0.022s >> sys 0m0.037s > > Things work quite a bit faster than that on my machine: > > $ time notmuch tag +foo > id:5641883d1001140730l22832715ld6bdc95c9938d...@mail.gmail.com > > real 0m0.024s > user 0m0.012s > sys 0m0.004s > > But that could just be system differences.
Possibly, though my machine is more than capable of what it's doing - a Q6600 with 4gb RAM >> And tagging all my messages is really horrible: >> >> $ time notmuch tag +foobar tag:inbox >> >> real 0m5.076s >> user 0m3.688s >> sys 0m0.105s > > For this operation, I can't really compare. How many messages are you > tagging? Here's that operation for me with 525 messages in my inbox: A few thousand (4k, I believe) >> That xapian-svn was built from svn HEAD right now, so I'm assuming it >> contains the #250 fix (http://trac.xapian.org/changeset/13808) > > Which I think means that things could have been even *much* slower > before. ;-) > > The Xapian defect #250 was just one, initial (and obvious) performance > problem. [Though, as I mentioned in a previous thread, if you're using a > Xapian flint database, (look for .notmuch/xapian/iamflint), then you > won't get the benefit of the Xapian fix until you rebuild your notmuch > database from scratch with a current notmuch.] I didn't know about this need to rebuild, but I tried that and didn't have any more success sadly. > Once you've verified that you've got the #250 fix functional, there > could still be lots of performance bugs. And it would be time to start > profiling. > > [...] I'm pressed for time at the moment, but in a few weeks I might have some time to investigate here... -- Oliver Charles / aCiD2 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch