[GNC] GNUCash becoming unusable ..v3.4

[Stephen M. Butler]

The below sounds a lot like my wife's windows 10 EeePC with 4 GB main
memory.  Everything creeps along including her email system.

Occasionally the hardware decides to reserve 3.3 GB of RAM (something in
the bios triggers it) and she ends up running in 700KB of RAM.

I would look in the Memory Performance to see how much actual RAM is
available.  You might find that most of it is no longer available.

I'm trying to convince her that she no longer needs to stay on Windows. 

On 2/1/19 4:11 AM, Robert Kesterson wrote:
> How is your system memory?  GnuCash loads all the data in memory (even if you use the SQL backend) so it needs some room to breathe.  I have easily ten years of data in my file (and I categorize and track everything at a level that few people would, so I have *lots* of splits), and I don’t experience the slowness or scrolling issues that you mention.  But then I have 32 GB of memory.  The problems you describe sound like what I would expect of memory was low and the system was using swap space a lot. 
>
>> On Feb 1, 2019, at 2:34 AM, Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, there are other small issues creeping in which makes me think the
>> program is becoming unstable.
>>
>> Example, when browsing the account tree menu the cursor hangs then jumps
>> after a delay to where you are pointing, this only happens when there is a
>> data file loaded.
>>
>> When reconciling an account if auto save starts then it can really take an
>> age, i don't tend to time this as go and do something else in between. 
>>
>> I generally don't run full ledgers either but selected 'all accounts'' by
>> mistake while editing options.
>>
>> My guess is the core code is designed for Linux, porting across to Windows
>> may not be ideal?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff Abrahamson wrote
>>> I've been doing reports with python scripts (not an officially supported
>>> technique, also requires the backend be sqlite, which is easy).  My
>>> reports run in a snap.  That said, maybe I have less data than you.
>>>
>>> Jeff Abrahamson
>>> http://p27.eu/jeff/
>>> http://transport-nantes.com/
>>>
>>>> On 01/02/2019 09:07, Jamestk wrote:
>>>> *First of all thank you to all of the contributors, devs who have
>>>> volunteered
>>>> to make GNUCash freely available.  *  
>>>>
>>>> That said, I do need to ask if any improvements are likely on the speed
>>>> front. Basic reports take 1 - 2 minutes to run, larger ledger reports up
>>>> to
>>>> 15 minutes. I have tried all of the tweaks mentioned on here but with
>>>> little
>>>> difference, if any.
>>>>
>>>> Its always puzzled me how crunching numbers requires so much time and
>>>> resources, its more intensive than rendering images. Changing even the
>>>> report title takes the same amount of time, i.e no number crunching? 
>>>>
>>>> My set-up isn't complicated, yes accounts go back 10 years but that in
>>>> itself is not a large number of transactions overall.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to moan but I need to make a decision about what to do.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>

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