From: itsastickup <lorrimang@...>
Date: 2009-04-30T23:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: gem problems: install "bulk updating..." gets oom killed: no 	memory.


> Is there a way of upgrading without the memory problems?  I've tried
> gem install <url to 1.3.1>
>
> but it still insists on "Bulk updating..." and dies.

So the solution seems to be to use the -B option to avoid the bulk
update feature. It then gets each one at a rate of 7 a second for
22,000: I had to wait an hour, but the following worked:

gem update --system -B 100000000