From: Andrew Stewart <boss@...>
Date: 2008-06-24T23:45:30+09:00
Subject: gem update --system: how to tell if it's making progress?

Hello,

Today I decided to upgrade rubygems on my server from 1.0.0 to 1.2.0.   
So I ran:

sudo gem update --system.

That was 4 hours ago.  I'd like to know whether it's stuck or whether  
it's actually making progress (and if so, when it might finish).

On the console I have:

$ sudo gem update --system
Updating RubyGems...
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org

The output from top looks like:

Cpu(s):  0.1% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 75.8% id, 24.1% wa,  0.0% hi,   
0.0% si
Mem:    262316k total,   260032k used,     2284k free,      120k buffers
Swap:   524280k total,   362352k used,   161928k free,     1264k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
26705 root      18   0  516m 192m  136 R    0 75.1   0:25.30 gem

I'd appreciate any advice about what to do.

Regards,
Andy Stewart

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