Sean Millichamp wrote:
> The first time it happened I wasn't quite ready to attribute it to GnuCash
> since I had lots of other things running even though I suspected GnuCash
> might have caused it.
>
> Now, it just happened again and I'm sure it has something to do with
> GnuCash.
>
> I sat down and spent the last two hours researching and trying to prepare
> for populating GnuCash with my more recent financial activity. I had
> entered information regarding my house loan entailing about 7 transactions
> (mostly opening balances plus balance adjustments to bring it current) and
> I had just moved to this month's checking account activity. I had entered
> 7 or 8 transactions when GnuCash started to furiously write to the disk
> and the machine crawled to a halt. It felt very much like a fork bomb.
>
> The mouse quickly became unresponsive and XMMS stopped playing music
> except for half second bursts every so often. I tried to kill X with
> CTRL-ALT-BKSP but it wasn't responding and I tried switching to a TTY but
> that wasn't responding either so after a minute or two I hit reset. Now,
> all my changes tonight are lost, of course.
>
> Right before the disk activity started I noticed that as I entered each
> transaction it took slightly longer then the previous one for GnuCash to
> recalculate the account balances on the main screen and return. There
> were noticeable delays enough that I became concerned how GnuCash would
> handle after a year's worth of activity, and upon recording the next
> transaction was when the problem occured.
>
> Is this a known bug? Has anyone else experienced this problem? It didn't
> crash in the core-dump sense so I'm not sure how to produce useful
> debugging info.
>
> If my data had been corrupted some other way could that be causing this?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help...
>
> Sean
>
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I have had the exact same problem on two occasions. Never had the problem
unless GNUCASH was running. The first time I waited 30 minutes before
rebooting, the next time I waited a full 10 hours to see how long my system
would thrash. Finally rebooted. System was totally non-responsive.
I run RedHat 6.1, GNUCASH 1.3.1 latest stable GNOME.
Glenn
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