From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-09-11T07:14:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem Update Problems

On Sep 9, 2007, at 23:31, Marcin Raczkowski wrote:

> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Sep 8, 2007, at 15:47, Bryan Richardson wrote:
>>> I'm having problems using gem.  I'm on Ubuntu Feisty, and when I try
>>> running 'gem update', it states "Bulk updating gem source index
>>> http://gems.rubyforge.org" and hangs there forever.  Any idea  
>>> what the
>>> problem is?
>> How much memory do you have?
> you have less then 0.5gb ram, poblem is poor implementation of gem  
> tool, it tries to load whole rubyforge gem index into memory i had  
> the same problem

No, it takes about 120MB of RAM for a full index update.

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