Finance::Quote Load Times

[David T.]

Well. Today when I load GnuCash, everything is much quicker. So, perhaps I was simply being impatient.

For humor and completeness, I looked at my trace file (“gnucash.trace”) anyway. 

Wow. The file is 19.1Mb on my system, which seemed to be rather a lot. I assumed this was the result of my single instantiation, since it appeared that all the entries were time-stamped in close time, but to be sure, I deleted the tracefile and reran GnuCash. Simply opening and closing GnuCash yielded the same file size.

Here are the lines right around the “Found Finance::Quote” message:

* 17:44:30 MESSG <gnc.bin> loading stylesheets
* 17:44:53 MESSG <gnc.scm> Found Finance::Quote version 1.38
* 17:44:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountRecomputeBalance] acct=Template Root starting baln=0/1

I will note the 23-second gap between the stylesheets to F::Q. That is not overly-time consuming by my standards, although it does seem to indicate that finding of F::Q, is taking 23 seconds, which does seem somewhat excessive. 

These lines are followed by sections establishing currency and commodity tables, followed by account/balances lines.

After this section, there are literally hundreds of screens’ worth of INFO messages. Many of these messages—75624 in my case--involve the phrase “Attempt to write disabled transaction log”. These messages span approximately 20 seconds themselves. Together, these account for about a 45 second delay in startup.

Is it normal for GnuCash to execute this many attempts to write to the disabled transaction log (whatever that may be)?

David


> On Oct 9, 2015, at 4:51 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Oct 9, 2015, at 12:40 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Well, it’s good to know I’m not alone in seeing this.
>> 
>> Now, can anyone suggest either a reason why this is happening, or perhaps a way to eliminate its occurrence?
>> 
>> David T.
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>>> On Oct 8, 2015, at 9:59 PM, David Bergum <dib at red-sky.us> wrote:
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>>> 
>>>> On Oct 8, 2015, at 16:50, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have noticed recently that GnuCash startup has slowed noticeably, and I see that Finance::Quote now seems to hold up the start for about 90 seconds. Does anyone know what might be causing this slowdown?
>>> 
>>> I have seen this, too.  After poking around in Terminal looking at the F::Q directories, I had normal load times, but then things went back to the long delay.  I previously sent some info about this, but I have just decided to live with it!  xD
> 
> The first thing would be to make sure that it’s really having trouble finding F::Q. Take a look at the trace file (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trace_File) and see if there’ really a 90-second gap in the timestamps before the 
> “Found Finance::Quote” message. GnuCash runs with the —debug flag on Macs, so the file will be pretty verbose, if there’s really a delay that should show it.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>