Re: GnuCash performance is too slow

> Hey is there anybody seriously using GnuCash for personal finance management
> ?
> 
> So far, I've found the Win32 GnuCash v2.2.9 unacceptably slow to
> 
>   1. Start up
>   2. Generate reports
>   3. Enter register transactions
> 
> on a P4 1.8 Ghz machine 750 mb RAM.
> 

Shouldn't be a problem. If it is, you are using the wrong program or there is 
some other issue.

> Does GnuCash use a database backend ? because it seems to have to rebuild
> reports or do a full table scan every time you make a simple report
> customisation or re-open a file.
> 

I just had a look at the dependencies and there are no databases obviously 
listed. That would suggest flat file. Not always a problem in my view... depends 
on the size and shape of the job, doesn't it?


> There's also no transaction-level zoom'ing for reports and charts in
> GnuCash.
> 

$ apt-cache show gnucash
gnucash - A personal finance tracking program

I've never used it, but I never got the impression it was a hard core accounting 
program. I think the key word there is "personal".


> Are there supposed to be additional/extended features that need to be
> plugged-in to GnuCash ?
> 
> At this stage, my opinion is GnuCash might be barely Ok for 1 or 2 years but
> it's not scaleable enough at all for serious long term business.
> 

If you want scalable, you could try ledgersmb. I've used it for years and it 
breezes through my work - postgres back end, web front end.

I'm sure there are others too.

FWIW, my accountant does just about everything on excel spread sheets!




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