From: Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Date: 2008-01-22T22:19:48+09:00
Subject: gem install SUPER SLOW in linux virtual machine

I'm switching a project over to working in a linux virtual machine,
running in windows xp.  Ruby and rails are working generally, but
there's one gem (ferret) that i need to get for this project.  I typed
in "gem install ferret" and got a message "Updating metadata for 903
gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org".

Fair enough, except that it's been doing that for over an hour now (more
like an hour and a half).  Whenever i've done this in windows it's taken
a minute or two at most.

Does anyone know why it might be so slow?  My network connection (wired)
out of the linux vm is otherwise pretty fast, about 6 Mb at the moment.

thanks
max
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