It is an SSD drive (I'm using a Mac Mini about one year old - with the M1 chip).
The slow part seems to be saving the database - inserting the transactions is fast enough, the save operation is what takes so long. It may be 20 minutes - I haven't timed it. Even closing GnuCash is slow - perhaps 30 seconds to a minute. Sent with ProtonMail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 11:40, Kenneth Schneider <kschnei...@bout-tyme.net> wrote: > I don’t believe the file is getting too large. If you haven’t looked into > using an SSD drive at least for the database I highly recommend it. Not only > will you amazed at how fast data will be written to the file but also how > fast you will be able to generate reports. > > Ken Schneider > > > On May 8, 2022, at 7:24 AM, Tim Hume via gnucash-user > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > My GnuCash file (SQLite format) has become rather large - 110 MBytes. Every > > month or two I import a lot more transactions in CSV format. I use piecash > > in a Python script I wrote, because the importing of CSV data built into > > GnuCash crashes when I import too many transactions. > > > > I might be importing perhaps 4000 or 5000 transactions. Saving them into my > > GnuCash file takes many many minutes. I know my file is getting too large, > > but it surely shouldn't take 10+ minutes to do this operation? Whilst I do > > it, I can see Python is taking 100% of a CPU core. > > > > Come the end of the financial year (30 June) I'm going to start a new file. > > But this will quickly grow in size, and no doubt I'll run into this problem > > again. Is there anything I can do to speed this up, or do I just have to > > live with it? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Tim. > > > > Sent with ProtonMail secure email. > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > 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 > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
