Finance::Quote Load Times

[LOOPING, Richard]

Hello,

personally, I am very unhappy with multiple MB attachments to a mailing 
list...

A much better thing to do is to put the files on some webhosting / 
sharing platform and share the link to it.

Thank you for the understanding.

Richard



On 25-10-2015 23:19, Jed Diem wrote:
> On 10/25/15 3:04 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Oct 25, 2015, at 12:42 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Oct 25, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Jed Diem <jed at tulane.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> John,
>>>>
>>>> I've attached two Activity Monitor files and a gnucash.trace file.  
>>>> gnucash.trace1 goes with sample1  which taken at the beginning of 
>>>> the "Checking Finance::Quote"  splash screen message.
>>>>
>>>> During the gnucash run from which sample1 was taken I managed to 
>>>> grab  "perl"  from the Activity Monitor. It was there for very 
>>>> short time.
>>>> It's sample file is "Sample of perl5.18."
>>>>
>>> Jed,
>>>
>>> Looks like the GnuCash thread is blocked waiting for input, which is 
>>> what one would expect. It's hard to be completely sure that it's the 
>>> read we think it is since we can't see the Scheme level calls, only 
>>> the C calls that they produce.
>>>
>>> I'm a bit troubled by the Perl trace because it seems to be from 3 
>>> minutes after the end of the gnucash.trace. Surely it's from a 
>>> second start attempt. I'm not surprised that it was brief. Did it 
>>> occur near the beginning or the end of the "Finance::Quote" period?
>> A bit of Googling reminded me of dtruss, which will collect some 
>> useful information. (For any Linux users following along, it's the 
>> BSD equivalent of strace.)
>>
>> Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal. At the prompt type
>>    sudo dtruss -d -f -e -o -n Gnucash-bin > ~/gnucash.dtruss 2>&1
>> It will prompt for your password. Enter that, then launch Gnucash. 
>> When it gets past the Finance::Quote message and starts loading your 
>> data file, return to Terminal and type Control-C to stop dtruss. 
>> Attach ~/gnucash.dtruss to a reply.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>
> John,
>
> The dtruss file is attached.
>
> Regards,
>
> --jed
>>
>
>
>
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