Gnucash REALLY slow

BPG bigskypa at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 09:12:50 EST 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
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> BPG <bigskypa at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The following are running slow;
> >
> > Reports,  Startup, Saving, deleting accounts
>
> Again, define "slow"?
>
> Reports can be slow depending on how much data you have.  Same with
> Saving your file (it writes out the whole file every time).  Startup can
> be slow, again, depending on how much data you have.  But I don't know
> why deleting accounts would ever be slow.
>
> Also, how much RAM do you have in your system?  And what else is
> running?   GnuCash can certainly be a bit of a memory hog.
>
> Note that GnuCash is mainly developed on Linux.  Windows and Mac are
> "secondary" platforms.
>


Oh....I think that explains why it's slow.  My machine is fast enough.  I
don't want to go into all the details.  It's a little faster now that I
reduced the data file size to under 1 meg.  Before it was 4 meg.




>
> -derek
>
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >     BPG <bigskypa at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >     > Is there a way to speed it up?
> >     >
> >     > Using ver. 2.2.9
> >
> >     What part is slow?  (and please don't say "all of it" -- that's as
> >     unhelpful as saying "it doesn't work").  Please be more specific
> about
> >     your issues.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     > Windows XP
> >
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> >     -derek
> >
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