James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> writes: > The last time I tried to run notmuch new on my incoming archive it > crashed the box. > > But back then the archive was on an external drive, several usb-storage > and general usb bugs have been fixed since then, and my dives are all > internal now. > > So it is time for another try. > > But first, how much ram and disk should I expect to need, as a function > of the size of the maildir archive? > > (It is a tree of dirs, with maildir dirs at the leaves. OTOH 20+ M > messages and just under 256 Go, base on du(1).) > > Trying to avoid data loss due to crashes...
I can't answer to memory, but as a rule of thumb the notmuch database seems to be around the same size as the mail it indexes. I think by any measure you have quite a lot of mail :-) Cheers, mwh