I put a bounty

[Linas Vepstas]

Sooo ...

Isn't anyone going to announce that they hope to work on this?

--linas

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 01:38:55PM -0400, don Paolo Benvenuto was heard to remark:
> Hi all!
> 
> I'm using gnucash in a rather complex situation, managing accounts of
> three subjects all together. I have many accounts (900) and many many

Are your accounts all at the top level, or are they nested?  If nested,
what's the largest number of subaccounts in an account?

> many txns (20,000).
> 
> In that situation, gnucash is running very slow: on my p4 1.8 G 256 M
> ram it takes 5 seconds to open an account register, and the same time to
> save a new txn.

I doubt this makes a difference for this case, but your computer
is megahertz-rich and megabytes-poor.  For typical Linux desktop usage,
you might find that a machine with a processor half-as-slow, but with
twice-as-much memory will be faster.  Maybe. I know I do.

(You have a typical windows config.  I suspect that windows machines
are always memory-poor because of some technical windows reason.)

> Since I need gnucash, it's part of my work, I can cooperate with a
> bounty in order to get this problem resolved.
> 
> I could see that these times depend only on the number of accounts, not
> on the number of txns.
> 
> Will we find someone with the ability and the will to resolve this task?
> 
> How much could be the amount to put in the bounty?
> 
> How could the bounty be managed?
> 
> Of course, I'll give the money when the problem got resolved, but I
> understand that we need a way in order the "bounty killer" to be sure
> he/she will receive the bounty.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Buon Cammino!
> 
> don Paolo Benvenuto
> 
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