On Aug 19, 2007, at 06:45, Farhan Ahmad wrote: > Eric Hodel wrote: >> On Aug 18, 2007, at 23:21, Eric Hodel wrote: >> >>> On Aug 18, 2007, at 14:28, Farhan Ahmad wrote: >>> >>>> I have been looking into why 'gem update' has been taking hours >>>> and hours on my computer to complete. Given that it's only a >>>> 700Mhz >>>> machine with 512MB RAM I still didn't think that would qualify it >>>> for such >>>> slow updates. >>>> >>> How much RAM is it using? I see about 120MB max with a bulk update >>> on OS X. >>> >> >> Second data point, ~20 minutes and ~70MB resident on a machine that >> should be at least an order of magnitude, possibly two, slower than >> yours. > > Apparently, it seems that the system only has 128MB RAM instead of the > original 512MB that I was thinking.
Try increasing the bulk theshold to something like 10000. `gem list - r -B 10000`. I'm working with Tom to get the new, fixed gem indexer installed so the quick index is always available. -- Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The best workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
