From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-09-22T22:45:39+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems TODO

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:46 +0900, Chad Fowler wrote:
> 5. Refactor the way gem indexes work.  It's gotten too big.  This is  
> high up on the TODO list because we're eating up too much RubyForge  
> bandwidth, and remote installs have gotten slow again. 

Cool, it's mostly a problem with the uncompressed index:

# ls -l /var/www/gems/yaml*
-rw-r--r--    1 chadfowler rubygems  6961504 Sep 21
21:01 /var/www/gems/yaml
-rw-r--r--    1 chadfowler rubygems   785672 Sep 21
21:01 /var/www/gems/yaml.Z

>  I believe Jim  
> is working on it concretely tonight.

Yup, looks like it :-)

http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/statcvs/commit_log.html

Yours,

Tom