[PATCH v2] new: Don't scan unchanged directories with no sub-directories
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Fri Oct 25 17:13:45 PDT 2013
Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> writes:
> This can substantially reduce the cost of notmuch new in some
> situations, such as when the file system cache is cold or when the
> Maildir is on NFS.
On my desktop at home (a core i7 950) with spinning rust disks (and lvm
on luks) this patch yields about a 7% slowdown in the intial new perf
test
from
Wall(s) Usr(s) Sys(s) Res(K) In/Out(512B)
Initial notmuch new 579.60 348.86 14.26 217188 5330266/3501272
to
Wall(s) Usr(s) Sys(s) Res(K) In/Out(512B)
Initial notmuch new 620.51 368.62 15.48 217156 5330354/3416456
On an SSD I don't detect a significant different (<0.5% speedup)
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