From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-07-19T10:19:25+09:00
Subject: Re: "gem update" eats 100% cpu and memory

On Wednesday 16 July 2008 13:25:13 Axel Bock wrote:
> > Uninstall the gem package from the repositories, download the latest gem
> > from RubyForge (1.2.0 is what I've got) and install it yourself, then
> > enjoy a gem that doesn't try and download/process the entire repository
> > in memory all at once each and every time you hit the servers.
> 
> thanks a lot for that. It seems I really have to install 1.2.0 by
> hand, neither ubuntu stable nor intrepid have this one available.
> Damn ... :-)

It's a bit worrisome that it's not in Intrepid, though. Any Ubuntu maintainers 
on this list?