[GNC] file save over network taking very long time

[Morris Walton]

The storage and the program are on the same pc.  I am xterm'ing in from
outside the lan.  the program itself , the gui, seems responsive, it's only
when i go to save, and i see the progress bar/ring doing it's thing - seems
to slow down.  I watch the storage, and the file size creeps up.

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 3:28 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you run 2.6.17 but save to a local file in the VM is it any
> different (running the UI directly on that machine, to take one of the
> variables out).  Also how is the file on the NAS accessed?
>
> I run 2.6.19 on Ubuntu 18.04 (an i5, not in a VM) but saving to a file
> on an NAS (a Pi), where the folder on the NAS is mounted using cifs
> and it only takes around 5 secs to save a 2MB compressed XML file.
>
> Colin
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 at 23:01, 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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