Searching slow although everything is indexed
Hi I am wondering why the Thunderbird search is sooooo slow compared to Outlook's - and if anything can be done to improve it. I have a company laptop with Outlook and 180,000 emails at a total size of 16 GB. A search for a the presense of particular word anywhere in the body or addressees is done i around a second. On my private laptop I run Thunderbird where I have 48,000 mails totalling 3.5 GB a search for the presense of a particular word in the message text is around a minute. All mails are indexed (set up under options) in both setups. Both laptops are equipped with i5, 6 GB RAM and fast SSD disks. The Company machine is running Win7 and my private is running Win10. Any suggestions? BR
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I have ~5gb on a laptop. 1. In your Thunderbird profile, what is size of your global-messages-db.sqlite file? (I would expect a size of 500MB to 1GB) 2. How much memory is thunderbird.exe using per taskmgr?
I recommend doing the search in Thunderbird, not in Windows. It will work faster, and then you can disable Windows Search in Thunderbird, which can cause problems.
Thunderbird Menu: Options: Advanced: General tab Uncheck "Allow Windows Search to search messages"
Quit Thunderbird. Restart Thunderbird.
Wayne Mery sagde
I have ~5gb on a laptop. 1. In your Thunderbird profile, what is size of your global-messages-db.sqlite file? (I would expect a size of 500MB to 1GB) 2. How much memory is thunderbird.exe using per taskmgr?
I'll check tomorrow when I have access to my laptop
Wayne Mery said
I have ~5gb on a laptop. 1. In your Thunderbird profile, what is size of your global-messages-db.sqlite file? (I would expect a size of 500MB to 1GB) 2. How much memory is thunderbird.exe using per taskmgr?
The global-messages-db.sqlite is 200 MB - somewhat less than expected as per your rule of thumb. The CPU usage while searching is 21-25% (i.e. one of four cores fully occupied)
Bruce A. Johnson said
I recommend doing the search in Thunderbird, not in Windows. It will work faster, and then you can disable Windows Search in Thunderbird, which can cause problems. Thunderbird Menu: Options: Advanced: General tab Uncheck "Allow Windows Search to search messages" Quit Thunderbird. Restart Thunderbird.
Thanks, but the search is indeed within Thunderbird, and the the 'allow Windows to search...' is already unticked.
KiDy said
Wayne Mery saidI have ~5gb on a laptop. 1. In your Thunderbird profile, what is size of your global-messages-db.sqlite file? (I would expect a size of 500MB to 1GB) 2. How much memory is thunderbird.exe using per taskmgr?The global-messages-db.sqlite is 200 MB - somewhat less than expected as per your rule of thumb. The CPU usage while searching is 21-25% (i.e. one of four cores fully occupied)
Could it be that indexing does not look in the Archive folder while search does?