Fw: Re: Startup troubles for 2.4.0 under OS X

[David T.]

Didn't go to the list. Oops

--- On Sun, 2/6/11, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Startup troubles for 2.4.0 under OS X
> To: "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Date: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 8:44 PM
> The compressed file is 1.8 MB. XML.
> Intel Mac running 10.5.8. It is the only data file I have.
> 
> Typically, this part of start up takes 30 secs. I *thought*
> I put in a bug about the start up running thousands of sql
> transaction checks (or something like it), but I can't seem
> to find that at bugzilla or on the list archives. 
> 
> I just looked in gnucash.trace, where I see 5MB of
> statements like the following:
> 
> * 17:01:28  INFO <gnc.engine>
> [trans_cleanup_commit] get rid of rollback trans=0x11788440
> * 17:01:28  INFO <gnc.engine>
> [xaccTransSetDateInternal] addr=0x11788220 set date to
> 1061276400.000000000 Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 2003
> * 17:01:28  INFO <gnc.engine>
> [xaccTransSetDateInternal] addr=0x11788220 set date to
> 1157752805.000000000 Fri Sep  8 15:00:05 2006
> 
> I honestly don't understand why the hell it's doing this.
> While it *does* process about 25 of these a second, it does
> enough of them to take 4 minutes and 40 seconds of these.
> Why would xaccTransSetDateInternal run in excess of 7000
> times on start up?
> 
> David
> 
> Ps: I will add info to the wiki about how to track down
> gnucash.trace and the console logfile on Mac, since I can
> never remember the steps to locate these files
> --- On Sun, 2/6/11, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> > Subject: Re: Startup troubles for 2.4.0 under OS X
> > To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: "Users Gnucash" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Date: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 6:09 PM
> > 
> > On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:10 PM, David T. wrote:
> > 
> > > And again, I am staring at 4 minutes start up at
> the
> > "Loading User data" prompt.
> > > 
> > > This is REALLY ANNOYING. Can anyone explain why
> this
> > happens some times but not others?
> > > 
> > 
> > What kind of file? How big? Do you have only the one?
> > Remind me how long it takes when it loads quickly, and
> what
> > kind of mac you're using.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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