Xiyue Deng <manp...@gmail.com> writes:

> Xiyue Deng <manp...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently I tried to use mu4e on OpenBSD.  However the indexing
>> performance is dreadly slow compared to my Linux box.  There was also an
>> issue report on mu upstream[1] where someone reported mu can only
>> process ~7msg/s on OpenBSD.  I suspect it's because of the slow write
>> performance on FFS, which in my case can only process ~2msg/s when the
>> index file grows large (over 1GB) (BTW my box is mips64el/Loongson
>> running 6.6-stable so it's even slower).  The read part is probably OK
>> as when re-indexing it can quickly skip already indexed items but when
>> adding new contents to the index it becomes slow again.  Would like to
>> ask for some suggestions on how to improve this situation.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/1335
>
> Ping.  Would like to get some advice on how to improve this situation.

Hi again,

So I digged a little more and it turned out that the slow performance is
more likely caused by the limited memory on my Loongson box (1GB), which
caused a lot of biowait when the swap is involved and resulted in very
slow performance overall.  Opened a bug upstream to track this[1].

[1] https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/1549

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