On 2007-05-29 12:04:57 +0100, Matt Mower wrote: > I'm having a problem with bulk updating the gem index on one of my VPS > such that it doesn't seem likely to complete (it didn't finish in a > little over 8hrs). > > The ruby process eats all available memory and most, although not all, > of the swap. CPU usage appeared minimal although the load average > crept up. There is nothing else on the system competing for memory or > cpu while this was going on.
mostlikely it needed the 8hrs because it was constantly swapping. > curl -o yaml http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml > irb > require 'yaml' > YAML.load( File.open( 'yaml' ) ) > > This uses a lot of CPU until free ram is exhausted (with ruby between > 70-75mb), then CPU use drops to almost nothing while the process > acretes swap space. The VPS has 96mb ram + 128mb of swap. i tried it on my box and it went up to 220 mb (the peak usage i could see in top). just curious: what ruby version do you have? darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
