From: Max Williams Date: 2008-01-24T19:11:18+09:00 Subject: Re: gem install SUPER SLOW in linux virtual machine Eric Hodel wrote: > Can you run it under the profiler? sure - using 'top' (the extent of my profiling knowledge) i can see that gem is using cpu - negligible (0.2%) ram - 10% (of the virtual memory allocated to the virtual machine?) virt - 63624 (is this in kB? 63 meg sounds about right for 10%) So, it doesn't seem to be using excessive amounts of memory, but i don't know enough to tell whether lots of swapping is happening. Thanks for the help guys btw :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.