From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-05-01T03:53:21+09:00
Subject: Re: gem problems: install "bulk updating..." gets oom killed: no  memory.

On Apr 30, 2009, at 07:30, itsastickup wrote:
>> 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

You can also upgrade my manually upgrading, see the last set of  
install instructions here:

http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=31661