Limits of gnucash

[Geert Janssens]

I can't answer your question with precise information. I can tell that 
purchasing an ssd will only affect file opening and saving, considering all 
data is kept in memory. Of course when using auto save it makes a big 
difference if the time to save the file drops from 4 minutes to say 30 seconds 
(no actual measurements, just as illustration).

In general I don't think gnucash was designed for the amounts of data you 
speak of, but is scaling relatively well. Your mileage may vary of course, 
depending on your hardware and patience (and importing all that data will 
likely be a challenge).

However I recently got a copy of a fairly large gnucash data file from a 
customer. The A/R and A/P accounts have about 25.000 splits each.

Some statistics:
* Number of accounts: 123
* Number of transactions: 44468
* Number of splits: 136352

* Loading the file into memory (starting from File->Open in an already running 
gnucash): 1m15s
* Opening the A/P or A/R account by double-clicking it in the Account 
hierarchy: 2s
* I haven't ran any other performance tests on this file.

This is on a recent PC, Z170 (Skylake) motherboard with an Intel(R) Core(TM) 
i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz and 16G of RAM and a samsung SSD (older model).
Gnucash is using about 650Mb of resident memory with this file loaded.

Regards,

Geert

Op maandag 9 januari 2017 22:51:47 CET schreef Balazs Gaal:
> Thanks, David.
> It looks like I should be a bit more specific with my question ☺.
> 
> I am considering to move to a new accounting system from my old one and
> gnucash is one of the options I am evaluating.
> One of the reasons to move,
> among others, is that the old one (or, rather the ancient one, dating back
> to the 90-s ☺) has hit the 16bit limit with the number of transactions.
> (Not the first time). Of course, to roll up the old transactions and have
> an archive system is always an option but I would prefer to have everything
> in one place. 
> That’s why I would like to know whether gnucash can tackle with let’s say
> one hundred thousand or one hundred and fifty thousand transactions.
 
> How many transactions do you have in your books when you say “I just
> purchased a new computer with 8Gig Ram and a I7 cpu ant it still cranks
> pretty slow on my data file in Windows 7”?  (Haven’t you considered to
> purchase an SSD? Sometimes it can make miracles ☺). Is gnucash able at all
> to use more than one core of the CPU simultaneously?
 
> Regards
> 
> Balázs
>