[GNC] GnuCash performance issue on larger accounts

Haowen Liu liu.haowen.andy at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 20:13:57 EST 2025


Hi all!

I'm using GnuCash to manage my personal finance and I use one file per 
year. Towards the end of the year, the most active account currently 
have 950 transactions over the past year and GnuCash is visibly 
struggling when I input transactions there. Is this to be expected? 
Should I break up files more, e.g. biannually?

I'm on Windows 11 and GnuCash 5.13. The file is stored as sqlite. I also 
added the directory where I store the GnuCash sqlite file to antivirus 
exception list just in case something is scanning it more often than needed.

Haowen



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