Slow processing

[Dave Peticolas]

Jim Woodruff writes:
> 
> I just installed gnucash-1.4.3-3 via rpm obtained from
> gnucash.org on my 533Mhz Alpha 21164PC that has 64 MB
> SDRAM and 1 MB SRAM cache. I'm running Red Hat 7.0.
> 
> I successfully imported Quicken 2001 QIF files from my
> wife's windows machine but have run into a major problem.
> Whenever I open, close, change preferences, enter data,
> etc. my checking account register (my checking account
> QIF file was 347 Kb in size) my computer processes and
> perfonms read/writes to my harddrive for 5-7 mins.  Top
> shows approximately 17% cpu and memory usages. This makes
> this program totally unusable.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem could be?
> The program seems to work fine on all other accounts
> (which are considerably smaller in size).

Yikes! The memory usage of the register in 1.4 is pretty
inefficient. Try this: go to the Settings dialog, switch
to the Register sections, and unselect the 'show all
transactions' option. Now, the register will only display
the last 30 or so transactions.

dave