gc 2.6.4 Accounts Tab Performance/Lag/Slowness

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 12:44:34 EDT 2014


On 30 October 2014 16:14, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> I find it interesting that you are focused on the performance of GnuCash
> at scrolling and window switching.  In my case, these functions are far
> overshadowed by many other issues that one might think consume fewer CPU
> cycles such as starting the program in the first place, generating
> reports, writing transaction edits back into the data file, and
> generating intermediate backup files every so often.  Those functions
> cause lags measurable in seconds or even minutes for me.  On my
> computers, even though I have lots of RAM, I find issues with all
> programs that are script intensive, which, these days, seem to be most
> of the programs that I use regularly.

What is the processor in your PC and how much RAM have you got?  You
said plenty but that does not mean much.

Are you using the normal file format or are you using an SQL database?

Colin


More information about the gnucash-user mailing list