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| author | Jonathan Bisson <bjonnh@bjonnh.net> | 2014-12-01 14:55:44 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Bisson <bjonnh@bjonnh.net> | 2014-12-01 14:55:44 -0600 |
| commit | 90029dcbc835ab0c5f6de711ec60ab912adb918e (patch) | |
| tree | 79bf7731c348b5a6d95849851f621fdda9f01536 | |
| parent | 20195ea8b2f71240d88ead910f5326e61d49a09b (diff) | |
Add a performance comment about the use of ecryptfs
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diff --git a/performance.mdwn b/performance.mdwn index b958689..a6d7f2e 100644 --- a/performance.mdwn +++ b/performance.mdwn @@ -3,6 +3,18 @@ [[!toc levels=2]] +## Use of ecryptfs slows notmuch down. + +I noticed that my `notmuch new` was really slow (several minutes) for +less then 20 new emails (around 20K in my database). + +The performance tests in the notmuch source didn't show any real +issue, even on a non-encrypted ext4 fs. + +After investigation and running different tests, a switch to a +LUKS-btrfs based filesystem to replace the ext4-ecryptfs resolved the +issue. It now takes some seconds to index hundreds of messages. + ## Xapian 1.2.x database format: chert vs. flint Xapian 1.2 (in contrast to 1.0.x) uses a new database format called |