[GNC] GnuCash very slow to start up and quit

[Tim Hume]

On Sunday, June 13th, 2021 at 17:28, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> the difference must simply be down to the size of database. I create
> a new accounts file each year, apart from anything else it keeps the
> auditor happy (church accounts) and it certainly keeps it small.
> Could you maybe split your system somehow?

I guess it must be just the size. I too only have a year of data - it's for a money transfer business, so there are lots of transactions every day. The start up and quit time shouldn't be this long - I/O will be a second at most, and the fact that I see GnuCash is CPU bound suggests there is something a little inefficient going on in the bowels of the code.

I'm going to throw more powerful hardware at the problem to start with. If I get sufficiently annoyed, I might delve into the source code :-).