[GNC] Saving in GnuCash painfully slow: what can I do?

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 9, 2018, at 10:53 PM, Hmm <sashasmith at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I am using the most recent version. The backend I am using, if I
> understand correctly is .xml.
> 
> What I mean is saving your data on GnuCash is painfully slow. It takes 10+
> minutes even for small banking transactions to save. 

The XML backend doesn’t save just the transaction, it saves the whole book. Every time. The SQL backend saves each transaction (or more correctly, commits each transaction to the database) when it’s committed in GnuCash.

That said, I tested save time yesterday on Windows with a 53MB (uncompressed) book. Saves took about 50 seconds. 

There’s an open bug on the topic, https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804>. Users have reported that they’ve observed a significant speedup by shrinking the window and in once case by turning off display scaling.

Regards,
John Ralls