Notmuch success: Xapian database corrupt

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Fri Apr 23 12:04:50 PDT 2010


On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:19:58 +0000, John Fremlin <john at fremlin.org> wrote:
> After the encouraging message from Sebastian. I deleted the
> .notmuch/xapian dir and started again.
> 
> It went off a good rate (300+ files/sec) and here was the final score
> 
> Processed 494764 total files in 2h 54m 41s (47 files/sec.).                 
> Added 226817 new messages to the database.

Nice. That's much more like what I'm accustomed to getting.

> This is much faster than before. As I haven't changed the storage or the
> filesystem (ext4,data=ordered over encrypted aes-xts-plain), I just
> don't know what made the difference. My kernel is now 2.6.32-21-generic
> #32-Ubuntu and I had an older one the first try a month or so ago.

Thanks for the details at least. Maybe other people having performance
problems can start finding correlations.

-Carl
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