Gnucash REALLY slow

[Maf. King]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 14:12:50 BPG wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please remember to CC the list on all your replies using your
> > mailer's reply-to-list or reply-all functionality..
> >
> > 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.
>

Hmm, my business accounts file is about 25 megs (uncompressed).  Opening / 
saving takes a few, maybe 10, seconds using an NFS mount.  Startup is 
comparable to OpenOffice.org and generating reports also take a while, but I 
don't recall ever noticing any sluggishness when entering or deleting txns.

But maybe the Windows version is a bit different during input.

0.02 (currency of your choice.)
Maf.