performance problems with notmuch new

[David Bremner]

Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com> writes:

>
> Tips for debugging this?
>
> I ran the notmuch performance/time-test, but after 15 minutes of waiting for
> the initial notmuch new to finish, I gave up and aborted.

You can try one of the smaller corpus sizes

$ make OPTIONS=--small time-test

runs in about 30s here (i7 4770 / SSD).  Replacing --small with --medium
takes about 10M (so a superlinear slowdown in wall clock time, since
that represents a 10x scale-up in the corpus size.).

d