From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:10:57 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] Slow import of messages In-Reply-To: <20090713091516.GA21214@ikn.schottelius.org> References: <20090713091516.GA21214@ikn.schottelius.org> Message-ID: <1248808053-sup-5358@masanjin.net> Hi Nico, Reformatted excerpts from Nico Schottelius's message of 2009-07-13: > Now the problem is that sup gets about 3 mails per second into its > index. As others have pointed out, messages only have to be indexed once, so this isn't ultimately that big of a deal. But 3m/s seems very slow for a Maildir source. With my mbox on my reasonably-fast laptop, I start with around 50m/s using Ferret, and at 80m/s using Xapian. (These numbers degrade slightly as the index gets fuller.) I would expect similar numbers from Maildir. So something weird is happening for you. Do you have a notion of whether it's disk or CPU that's the bottleneck? -- William