From: William Rutiser <wruyahoo05@...>
Date: 2007-11-21T02:37:29+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2)

Ron Jeffries wrote:
> Update:
>
> Rather than follow any of the radical solutions like new computers or
> formatting my hard drive, I purchased and downloaded some system
> cleaning tools from uniblue software.
>
> Ran them and the Ruby tests now run //faster// than Chet's machine.
> And for some reason, the total number of I/Os recorded has dropped
> from 65,000 to 25,000.
>
> Not a solution, since I don't know what the problem was. But as a FIX
> goes, cheap and easy.
>
> Thanks to all for the help and ideas. It kept me moving and some of
> the tools I downloaded look like they'll be handy in the future.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Ron Jeffries
> www.XProgramming.com
Its good that you have it resolved. Do you know what the tools did?

I have suspected that your problem might have had to do lots of files in 
some directory that Ruby or Rails searches frequently. Another 
possibility is an accumulation of junk in the Windows environment 
variables. Perhaps the drive was badly fragmented.

Bill Rutiser