[GNC] file save over network taking very long time

[Adrien Monteleone]

Not sure if Vinagre is available for Windows, but I noticed a significant improvement in response and lag accessing a remote session over VNC via an SSH tunnel with it vs. the built-in Mac screen sharing I was using. There is still a bit of latency, but that is to be expected since there are about 10 hops between me and the target machine. If you were accessing a local VM, I’d suspect you probably wouldn’t even notice any lag at all. It may not be available for Windows, but the point is that the viewing software can have a large impact in this area, perhaps another solution will work better than the PuTTY/Xming combo.

(this won’t address the file save issue of course, just the GUI responsiveness)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 31, 2018, at 4:58 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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