Subject: [sup-talk] Is sup slow on cygwin

From: [email-masked] (Manish Sapariya)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:20:34 +0530

Hi,
I am running sup on cygwin and using the mbox file
created by Thunderbird 2.0 on windows. I started
sup-sync and in almost 2 hours it just indexed 4
messages.

The folder that I am indexing has 270 messages and
size is around 17MB.

Is sup indexing expected to take this much time?

when I am running sup-sync or even sup, the CPU spins
100% all the time. In sup-sync output all I see is
output like..
===
## 3 (4.83%) read; 0:01:23 elapsed; 0:27:24 remaining
## 5 (4.84%) read; 0:02:31 elapsed; 0:49:35 remaining
===
What does first number denote?
And the remaining time goes very high if I keep running
when I kept it running for almost 2 hours, it said
remaining time is 61:12:43?

Any ideas?

Thanks and Regards,
Manish

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From: [email-masked] (Christopher Warrington)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:42:36 -0600

> Is sup indexing expected to take this much time?

No. I was able to re-index my entire archive in under four hours. My 
index is 19800 messages large (or so) and a mix of mbox and IMAP. I have 
about 450 MB in mbox sources.

> 100% all the time.

I don't see this at all. Right now, sup's ruby process is idle.

> In sup-sync output all I see is
> output like..
> ===

The number of messages processed.

> Any ideas?

What version of sup? What version of ruby? What version of Windows? 
Which ferret gem is installed?

-- 
Christopher Warrington <chrisw at rice.edu>

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From: [email-masked] (Manish Sapariya)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:44:44 +0530

> The number of messages processed.
Even I thought so initially, but in my case count went above 270 (no. of 
mails
thunderbird showed in the inbox), and the percentage shown was about 5%,
and the process was still going on.
> Which ferret gem is installed
 - ferret (0.11.6)
- sup (0.4)
- ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-cygwin]
- CYGWIN_NT-5.1 manish 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin
- Thunderbird version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)
- Windowx XP - 5.1 SP2

Regards,
Manish

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:24:51 -0800

Manish,

Did you ever resolve this?

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

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From: [email-masked] (Manish Sapariya)
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:42:34 +0530

Hi William,
I could not resolve it when working with Thunderbird mbox files.
However then I moved to fetchmail and procmail, with maildir mail
box and things are working fine.

Just to add more context, I had nightmare getting sup working with
thunderbird mbox files (even on linux) and eventually I decided to
go for fetchmail to fetch my mails and things are working perfectly
fine.

However if you are curious to know what goes wrong when working
with Thunderbird mbox file, I may try out again and post the results.

Thanks and Regards,
Manish