From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13314 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: notmuch? Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:14:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87zl667pvt.fsf@engster.org> References: <87638y494z.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259414113 3689 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2009 13:15:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:15:13 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 28 14:15:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NEN8k-0001nZ-MG for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:15:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEN8k-0001rF-2x for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:15:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEN8g-0001pL-21 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEN8b-0001nA-7R for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:15:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42643 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEN8b-0001n1-3u for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:14:57 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37960) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NEN8a-00027Z-OP for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:14:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NEN8X-0001ib-W0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:14:53 +0100 Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-044-154.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.44.154]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:14:53 +0100 Original-Received: from deng by dslc-082-083-044-154.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:14:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslc-082-083-044-154.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:/WmwQwH+1Riw59AwXvxrPkEZk3k= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:13314 Archived-At: Adam Sjøgren schreibt: > Has anyone here played with notmuch¹ in combination with Gnus? I see it > has an Emacs-interface, but I haven't tried it yet. > > (It is still indexing my 140k emails :-)) I've played around with it, and while I really like the concept, I'll stick with mairix for the time being. Since I've written nnmairix, this is probably not a big surprise, though. ;-) Basically, at the moment it seems a bit too slow for me. I have about 40k mails on an Intel Dualcore: notmuch search "from:deng@randomsample.de" 0.74s user 0.41s system 7% cpu 14.650 total Granted, subsequent (but identical!) searches are much faster: notmuch search "from:deng@randomsample.de" 0.41s user 0.11s system 99% cpu 0.521 total But still, with mairix I get mairix -t -r "f:deng@randomsample.de" 0.01s user 0.01s system 12% cpu 0.123 total I know that notmuch supports tagging and Xapian supports much more sophisticated searches than mairix, but I do not currently need that. (If I have missed something in the configuration which would make searching much faster, I'd love to hear about it.) -David