performance problems with notmuch new

Don Zickus dzickus at redhat.com
Mon Apr 20 09:26:28 PDT 2020


On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:31:09AM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > Hmm, for me --small was 35s and --medium was 32 minutes.  This is on a
> > i7-9750H / nvme.  I would expect numbers similar to yours.
> >
> 
> In addition to the breakdown of numbers that I posted, it would be
> potentially useful to know if it is I/O bound or CPU bound, and what
> kind of file system you are using.

I believe it is cpu bound as the cpu hits 95-100% while iotop should around
250k /sec reading and 50k/sec writing.  The filesystem is ext4 using device
mapper to mount it.

The other numbers are in my other reponse.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Don



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