Yes, when I saw the 128G RAM, I confess to some feelings of jealousy. <heh>
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 3:50 AM WR D <[email protected]> wrote: > 128GB of ram? Can I assume you actually mean disk storage, not "RAM", or > that's one beast of a machine. > > I use the default install of Gnucash for windows (latest stable version) - > my local drives are NVME M.2 - so reasonably fast to boot up typically. > > My Gnucash file is 3.5MB and my Win 11 desktop is about 3 years old with > 16GB RAM and Intel i5-9500 @3Ghz (in-built graphics). I see variable 1-2 > seconds delay while entering transaction data ... just enough to annoy me > as I don't notice it with any other software. > > I just put it down to the gnucash software, and not my hardware. For > example I run MS Office 2021 software without noticeable delays while > inputting. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> > On Behalf Of AC > Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2024 5:13 PM > To: GnuCash users group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Delay during data entry > > On the machine running Gnucash it's a Win 10 with 128 GB of RAM. I'm using > version 4.12 with build ID 4.12+2022-09-24. According to the system > profiler the entire Gnucash process is occupying about 175 MB working set > RAM (physical in use), 119 MB active primary RAM (physical unable to be > used by other processes), 56 MB shared RAM, and 550 MB commit size > (allocated virtual by OS). I do notice a slightly higher cycle time > compared to other idle programs (most idle programs use 0 to > 1 cycles while Gnucash is using 4 to 5 when idle). > > I do not use an SQL backend and I don't have compression turned on. The > current file size is around 42 MB. It's on a spinning SAS drive local to > the computer so I'm not dealing with network latency (though with no SQL > backend it's entirely RAM transaction anyway). > > On 2024-05-01 16:28, David Carlson wrote: > > Those of us who are still running versions as old as 4.8, possibly > > because we are not ready to tackle setting up a flatpak in Linux still > > see horrible response times. It gets worse when the data file when > > loaded takes up over half of the RAM in our machine or if we are > > running it in a virtual machine. My version 4.8 Gnucash instance > > takes about 11.3 Meg when saved or 2.4 Gig of RAM when loaded in Linux > > Lite 6.6. The entire virtual machine has 8 Gig of RAM but every time > > I press enter it takes several seconds before the curser returns, or > > 15 seconds or more when I execute File >Save, which needs to be done > > every few minutes. Some of the delay comes from having too many > > registers open. I realize most of my misery is self inflicted, since > > I have now tried working on the same data in release > > 5.6.1 on a Windoze 10 machine with 32 Gig RAM, which almost keeps up > > with my slow typing. It is still going to take a while to revise my > > procedures to get away from GnuCash release 4.8 and have the level of > > hardware and software redundancy that I want to keep backups, etc. > > > > On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I don't see any delays on either Windows (Win 10, 16G RAM), or my M1 > >> iMac (Sonoma 14.4.1; 16G RAM), or or Linux (Ubunto 22.04LTS, 8G RAM). > >> In all cases, the file is stored on my NAS with spinning hard drives > >> (that is, not an SSD), and I am saving to a compressed file (I've not > >> changed this since I started, so I assume that these are the default > >> settings). My file size is about 2.2M > >> > >> Could it be that you are saving to a SQL database? I remember reading > >> here that (unlike the standard option) it saves after every > >> transaction. Maybe the database is on a slowish drive? > >> > >> Otherwise, I don't know why there would be such a lengthy delay after > >> doing an entry. > >> > >> I assume you've run the Check/Repair just to verify that there isn't > >> some file problem? > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 12:00 AM AC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Just as a curiosity what is going on under the hood that influences > >>> the delay after entering data into a register row? I notice that > >>> after I enter the details of a transaction into a register and > >>> commit the changes (pressing enter or tabbing to next row) there is > >>> a 5 to 7 second delay before I can enter the next transaction. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> gnucash-user mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >>> ----- > >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> _________________________________ > >> Richard Losey > >> [email protected] > >> Micah 6:8 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >> ----- > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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