From: Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Date: 2008-01-22T23:14:15+09:00
Subject: Re: gem install SUPER SLOW in linux virtual machine

Max Williams wrote:
> 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

I ended up killing this and forcing the install without update with

 sudo gem install ferret --no-update-sources

So, i'm up and running but still puzzled over why it was taking so long. 
I tried starting it again and once again it looked like taking much 
longer than usual (I killed it again).  So, if anyone has any ideas i'd 
still like to know :)
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