GnuCash 2.6.3 (portable) for Windows taking a LONG time to read/save file

[John Ralls]

On Jun 29, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Lance Alligood <lalligood at gmail.com> wrote:

> John,
> 
> Thank you for your response. When it took ~18 minutes to load my same data file, that was with me running 'gnucash.exe --debug --extra', instead of the 2-3 minutes for just 'gnucash.exe'.


OK, that's interesting. The fact that extra logging increases the execution time by such a large value suggests that writing the log might be part of the problem. Please try launching GnuCash with --logto=NUL ; I *think* that NUL is the Windows equivalent of /dev/null, but since we're dealing with a unix emulation layer, it might require --logto=/dev/null to suppress the logging.

> 
> I certainly can compare--and now have compared--the logs from my Windows vs Ubuntu sessions! Lengthwise & structure-wise, the files are nearly identical. The most significant difference is that it only took 8-10 SECONDS for the application to load my datafile when running 'gnucash --debug --extra' in Ubuntu (vs the nearly 20 minutes in Windows). I've taken both trace files & made them available through the links below.
> Ubuntu => https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fy8msaw785xhmie/AADpnvhcXeVIwfpI_CCeoEVVa/gnucash.trace
> Windows => https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fy8msaw785xhmie/AACjl-ogzq4Nnp6v2lC352Nua/gnucash.trace.TQ75HX.log
> 

Indeed. Unfortunately the timestamps are of too low a resolution to help understand where the problem is, and I haven't yet been able to find a way to get usable profiling data on Windows.

Regards,
John Ralls