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 <gnucash-user-bounces+dullege=hotmail....@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of AC Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2024 5:13 PM To: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> 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 <rlo...@gmail.com> 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 <gnuc...@acarver.net> 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 >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> 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 >> rlo...@gmail.com >> Micah 6:8 >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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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