Unbearably slow load time

[Cliff Dyer]

I did a little more digging, and discovered that the problem
seems to be rather widespread across gnome.  (I wasn't
actually using the gnome desktop, so I didn't notice too
much); nautilus is another big problem app for this ridiculous
lag.  But knowing that, I was able to find some more useful
information in the NetBSD mailing lists, and it looks like the
problem is in the pth libraries that NetBSD 1.6.2 uses, so
I'm upgrading to 2.0.  NetBSD makes it pretty easy to
upgrade OS versions.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

>From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
>To: "Cliff Dyer" <jcliffdyer at hotmail.com>
>CC: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
>Subject: Re: Unbearably slow load time
>Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:41:43 -0500
>
>Odd.
>
>I don't know what to tell you.  Try running a syscall tracer and see
>where it's spending all its time?  This sounds particularly
>*bsd-specific.
>
>-derek
>
>"Cliff Dyer" <jcliffdyer at hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > libtool version 1.5.10
> >
> >
> >>From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> >>
> >>What version of libtool do you have?
> >>
> >>I think this is a *BSD issue as nobody on Linux has ever shown this
> >>unbearably slow loadtime.  I suspect it's an issue with the netbsd
> >>runtime linker or perhaps the libtool library.
> >>
> >>Your signal handler issue definitely looks like a runtime linker
> >>problem and/or libtool problem which I'm fairly sure has been
> >>discussed before.
> >>
> >>-derek
> >>
> >>Cliff Dyer <jcliffdyer at hotmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > I am running gnucash 1.8.9 on NetBSD 1.6.2 on an IBM ThinkPad T23,
> >> from the
> >> > pkgsrc collection.
> >> >
> >> > It is compiled against:
> >> >
> >> > ORBit-0.5.15nb7
> >> > g-wrap-1.3.4nb6
> >> > g-wrap-1.3.4nb6
> >> > gal-0.22nb6
> >> > gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0nb3
> >> > glib-1.2.10nb8
> >> > gnome-libs-1.4.2nb4
> >> > gnome-print-0.36nb6
> >> > gnome1-dirs-1.5
> >> > gtkhtml-1.1.10nb5
> >> > guile-1.6.6
> >> > guppi-0.40.3nb13
> >> > libglade-0.17nb7
> >> > libxml-1.8.17nb3
> >> > p5-Date-Manip-5.42anb1
> >> > p5-finance-quote-1.08nb2
> >> > popt-1.7nb5
> >> > xdg-x11-dirs-1.1
> >> >
> >> > When I try to fire it up (from a terminal), it does a whole lot of
> >> nothing
> >> > before it ever loads up.  Looking at the output of top, guile ran
> >> for 19m 37s
> >> > of processor time before the splash screen even came up.  The main
> >> window
> >> > appeared after 20m 16s of processor time (from the initial
> >> invocation, not
> >> >>From the splash screen) and a whopping 52 minutes of real time.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >  During operation, I got the following errors (some repeatedly):
> >> >
> >> > ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'gnc_register_date_cb'.
> >> > ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'gnc_register_today_cb'.
> >> > ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler
> >> 'gnc_register_date_toggle_cb'.
> >> >
> >> > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_handler_block_by_data(): could not find
> >> > handlercontaining data (0xDEADBEEF)
> >> >
> >> > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_handler_unblock_by_data(): could not find
> >> > blocked handler containing data (0xOXDEADBEEF)
> >> >
> >> > And finally, when I accidentally opened an edit account window, I
> >> got the
> >> > following:
> >> >
> >> > Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkarrow.c: line 174 (gtk_arrow_set): assertion
> >> > `GTK_IS_ARROW (arrow)' failed.
> >> >
> >> > Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktogglebutton.c: line 284
> >> > (gtk_toggle_button_set_active): assertion `GTK_IS_TOGGLE_BUTTON
> >> > (toggle_button)' failed.
> >> >
> >> > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find 
>handler
> >> > containing data (0x8A17600)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > And then the program crashed.  This was my first time using GnuCash.
> >> >
> >> > I'm guessing this is some problem in the libraries I'm using.  Any
> >> advice?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Cliff
> >> >