No, I do mean 128 GB RAM. Storage is 20 TB locally and 160 TB on the network (but the data for Gnucash is stored on the local disks). It's one of three daily drivers, this one being the Windows one for some CAD software and MS Office.

There's no latency anywhere else on the system, just in Gnucash after I've entered a transaction and it does its own processing in the background.

On 2024-05-02 01:49, WR D 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.


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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.
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