Startup time

[David T.]

I don't know about the SQL report benchmarks, but I understand that the 2.3 branch of Gnucash is sporting several substantial changes to the reports subsystem that are supposed to help with many of the most common complaints regarding reports. I don't know for sure because I haven't tempted fate by trying to install the unstable version.

David

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz <gnucash at numerixtechnology.de> wrote:

> From: Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz <gnucash at numerixtechnology.de>
> Subject: Re: Startup time
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 12:43 PM
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:25:59 -0400
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> wrote:
> 
> >Seriously, GnuCash is just a large application. 
> It takes time to load.
> >[...]
> >Seriously, how long is it taking to load?  15
> seconds?  20? 
> 
> v. 2.2.6 on Linux:
> 
> 20s without account opening (--nofile)
> 21s opening 29MB file (without opening reports)
> 6s opening 6MB file  (without opening reports)
> 31s opening Income Statement for 29MB file
> 
> The 29MB file spans 5 yrs.
> 
> Personally, I don't mind the start-up time. It's the first
> thing I open
> in the morning and the last thing I close at midnight.
> 
> I enter all my transactions "live" as I go along and I
> appreciate the
> speed at which I can do so. (I often enter transactions
> under time
> pressure.)
> 
> What I find a major problem though is the time it takes to
> run reports,
> to the extent that I virtually stopped using them. However,
> the
> reports, in my mind, are the main reason for entering the
> data in the
> first place.
> 
> (Like you wrote in another post, Derek, I would like to
> keep certain
> reports open all the time.)
> 
> 
> Can the SQL-based version be expected to produce reports
> faster?
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
> 
> 
> A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
> Q: Why is top posting bad? 
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