From: itsastickup <lorrimang@...>
Date: 2009-04-30T20:35:02+09:00
Subject: gem problems: install "bulk updating..." gets oom killed: no memory.

Hello,

ruby 1.8.4, gems 1.0.1

On a 256MB VPS my gem installs blow up. I had this problem when the
VPS was at 128MB, then upgraded to 256 and it went away. But now it's
happening again. It doesn't matter how many processes I kill to make
free memory I still run out. This time around I can't justify
upgrading the VPS.

I also can't update the gem system in case this is a bug that's been
fixed: the same thing happens.

Any help appreciated.