From: "G.Durga Prasad" Date: 2007-06-29T23:53:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Stuck While "Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org" On 6/28/07, Eric Hodel wrote: > On Jun 25, 2007, at 15:50, Isarian wrote: > > I have a small server which I want to get Ruby on Rails working on. > > I've installed Ruby and RubyGems, but when I try to install any > > package through RubyGems, the server load climbs out of control, and > > the install process (sudo ruby install rails) which has been running > > for more than three hours now appears to have gotten nowhere. Is the > > server just not able to handle Ruby properly? Is there a way to > > manually update the source index? > > If you've got limited memory, you should use capistrano and vendor/ > and deploy your entire environment rather than trying to install > everything by hand. Small memory slices aren't meant for traditional > development. > > -- > Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The > best > workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars > > > > > > I have a small server which I want to get Ruby on Rails working on. > > Thanks! > > -Isarian Stuck While "Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org" While doing "sudo gem install any_gem" I am experiencing the same problem on my recently installed Ubuntu-Fiesty: Linux prasad-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Because of the hint about memory I found that my swap is not enabled. Googling revealed a bug and some fixes. $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 223636 215352 8284 0 1276 83788 -/+ buffers/cache: 130288 93348 What worked for me to solve this problem is editing the /etc/fstab and replacing the swap partition line UUID=b4e51f53-5be6-4536-8668-02923d8b3c59: none swap sw 0 0 with: /dev/hdc5 none swap sw 0 0 and rebooting Thanks to both of you Prasad