[GNC] file save over network taking very long time

[David Carlson]

I have refrained from commenting on this because I do not run release 3.x,
but now I will, in case it helps the developers to think of other issues
that may be in play.

I am running release 2.6.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 installed on a VirtualBox guest
and either viewing it directly or using PuTTY with Xming to SSH into that
machine from the Windows 7 (64 bit) host.  This is on a core i7 laptop with
24 GIG of RAM.  My XML file resides on a NAS in a different room in my
house.  My computer display is set to 1920x1080, and I recently reduced the
the text size from 125% to 100 % in an attempt to see more text in the
descriptions, but it did not seem to change anything (speed or text size)
in SSH sessions.   Both methods are very slow, taking minutes to save my
XML data file and even several seconds to process a keystroke such as
changing the focus to a different transaction.  I can also run release
2.6.19(?) directly in Windows 7 but that is even slower.  I have plans to
convert another computer to either Ubuntu or Debian and SSH into it instead
of using VrtualBox, but I have not gotten there yet.  If release 3.2 is
even slower, I do not want to go there.

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:55 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:46:31 CEST schreef Morris Walton:
> > I've got many years worth of data saved in an xml file. I'm running 2.7.4
> > on gentoo. With the amount of data i have, I'm not surprised it's getting
> > slower, but saves that are initiated when i shell/x into the box from
> > outside the home network are taking hours.  This long lag seemed to start
> > happening sometime last year (my lastest build from gentoo was
> 2018-02-03,
> > and I think it started happening around that time).  my upstream b/w is
> > somewhere around 40mbps, which is better than what it was when it was
> > saving at a decent speed.
> >
> > If I had to guess, i'd say it was taking that long because gnome/graphics
> > wants to draw that progress circle? I can't say for sure but it seemed
> like
> > before it was drawing the circle, and saving at "at home rate."
> >
> > Anybody got any ideas on what is going on, and how to remedy?
> >
>
> Other users have reported slow saves as well. There's even a bug report:
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804
>
> It does seem to be related to gui refreshes indeed. Suggested workarounds
> are
> to minimize the application while saving (but then it's hard to tell when
> it's
> done), reducing screen resolution or making the main window as small as
> possible.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
>
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