gc 2.6.4 Accounts Tab Performance/Lag/Slowness

[David Carlson]

On 10/30/2014 11:44 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>

Colin,
I assume that you are asking me.  One of my windows 7 machines is a
desktop with an Intel G630 2.7 GHz Processor with 5.85 GB useable RAM
running 64 bit Windows 7 Pro SP1.  The other is a newer HP laptop with
an Intel i5-3210M processor 2.5 GHz with 7.88GB useable RAM running the
same version of Windows.  I just put the October 22 build of GnuCash
2.6.4 on that machine a few minutes ago.  The October 27 build will not
install.
I also have an older laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 with only 2 GIG of RAM
and GnuCash 2.6.3 runs faster on that machine than any version of
GnuCash does on either of the Windows machines, but it is still pretty
slow overall. 

My primary data file is kept in compressed XML format and it weighs in
today at 4,122 KB.

David C