[PATCH 1/7] test: add known broken test for indexing html

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sun Jul 16 05:44:49 PDT 2017


David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> 'quite' on IRC reported that notmuch new was grinding to a halt during
> initial indexing, and we eventually narrowed the problem down to some
> html parts with large embedded images. These cause the number of terms
> added to the Xapian database to explode (the first 400 messages
> generated 4.6M unique terms), and of course the resulting terms are
> not much use for searching.

this bug is fixed in master / release

d


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