Gnucash nytprof file

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 27, 2015, at 1:56 PM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net> wrote:
> 
> Jed Diem <jed at tulane.edu> writes:
> 
>> I've attached the Gnucash nytprof file.
>> 
>> In looking around both a gnucash.trace file and gnucash.dtruss file
>> for patterns,  I found the following which may or may not be
>> interesting.
>> 
>> In a gnucash tracefile,  74532  instances of "Attempt to open or write
>> to a disabled transaction log."
>> 
>> In gnucash.dtruss,  4538 files not found errors.  16 either "LibIDN.pm
>> or LibIDN.pmc instances", 1652 "dylib" instances and 2886 other files.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> So we are getting closer. I've attached a capture of the time spent in
> loading perl module IO::Socket::SSL.
> 
> <Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 21.02.00.png>
> You'll see that your system spent 21s in line 253
> 
>    if ( eval { require Net::IDN::Encode }) {
> 
> and 42s in line 255
> 
>    } elsif ( eval { require Net::LibIDN }) {
> 
> As you've already detected with dtruss neither of those is installed on
> your system. For some reason those 2 checks take ages.
> 
> The version of IO::Socket::SSL included on your system is ageing. Both
> checks have been removed in current version of the module. I have a wild
> guess that the problem you experience might be the reason for that. For
> reference, this is the current version of the BEGIN block that contains
> the problem:
> 
> BEGIN {
>    # import some constants from Net::SSLeay or use hard-coded defaults
>    # if Net::SSLeay isn't recent enough to provide the constants
>    my %const = (
>        NID_CommonName => 13,
>        GEN_DNS => 2,
>        GEN_IPADD => 7,
>    );
>    while ( my ($name,$value) = each %const ) {
>        no strict 'refs';
>        *{$name} = UNIVERSAL::can( 'Net::SSLeay', $name ) || sub { $value };
>    }
> 
>    *idn_to_ascii = \&IO::Socket::SSL::PublicSuffix::idn_to_ascii;
>    *idn_to_unicode = \&IO::Socket::SSL::PublicSuffix::idn_to_unicode;
> }
> 
> 
> In conclusion, I can figure two possibilities to solve your problem:
> 
> - install the first missing module
> 
>  cpan -i Net::IDN::Encode
> 
>  That way the first check should succeed and the second check won't be
>  reached. If this solves the problem you don't need the second option.
> 
> - upgrade IO::Socket::SSL
> 
>  cpan -i IO::Socket::SLL
> 
>  but this might brake your system, as you are messing with the system
>  perl modules. If you go this way, I recommend that you have a recent
>  backup of your system, and be sure you can restore it!
> 
> 
> Keep me informed !

Erik,

I guess that nails my diagnosis, thanks. It still doesn’t explain why David T’s and Jed’s systems are looking on the network for Net::IDN::Encode and Net::LibIDL when mine aren’t. I suppose that it’s moot if the work-around is sufficient, but I’m curious anyway.

Regards,
John Ralls