From: "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...>
Date: 2008-01-13T09:45:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby from source on Leopard excruciatingly slow internet talk

This may not help you but I was having a slow-as-molasses DNS lookup  
issue when I upgraded to Leopard. I disabled IPv6 and it sped things  
up considerably. Anyhow, it's a change that might help and is easy to  
undo.

HTH


On Jan 12, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Chris Shea wrote:

> Just a couple of days ago I "upgraded" from Tiger to Leopard, and the
> most horrible thing about it is that anything Ruby does over the
> internet is so very very slow now. `which ruby` tells me I'm still
> using my from-source install in /usr/local/bin, as does `which gem`.
>
> I have a script that scrapes some stuff from craigslist that now takes
> way too long (I might as well look myself). And my heart sinks when I
> see "Updating metadata for 176 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org".
> That seriously takes forever (a little hyperbole). Nothing else is
> suffering huge network slowness. Even a simple "require 'open-uri';
> open('http://www.google.com')" takes 15 seconds (but half a second
> tops in a browser). This all happened at a reasonable pace just a few
> days ago. Other ruby installations on other machines (with other
> operating systems) talk to the internet with appropriate quickness.
>
> I know one other person who's experienced this, but with no solution.
> Anyone else? I haven't found similar stories, but maybe that's because
> no one else is having this problem, or the solution is so obvious no
> one bothers to mention it.
>
> Any pointers or ideas would be hugely appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>