Unbearably slow load time

[Derek Atkins]

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>
>>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 12:26:58 -0500
>>
>>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
>> >
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>> >
>>
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>>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available