From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T09:05:58+09:00
Subject: Re: 'gem update --system' runnaways? requires more than 120mb memory?


On Sep 22, 2007, at 21:03 , Mark T wrote:

> Is there a good/bad reason 'gem update --system' would gobble up all
> available memory then halt with message 'killed' to the console?
> (122072k free).

'killed' kinda sounds like OS process limits were tripped...

Poke at the results of `ulimit -a`.