As my 256MB VPS was swapping to death for hours (!) when attempting to install any gem (while bulk updating the source it was eating 300-350MB RAM), I attempted to install the beta gem as suggested by Jim Weirich in a post in this list some months ago:
> I would like those who are experiencing memory problems to give the > beta version a try and report back. You can get the beta version using > (using sudo if necessary on your system): > > gem update --system --source http://onestepback.org/betagems > > Of course, if you are having problems due to memory, the above might > not work. You can download the update explicitly using the following > URL: > > http://onestepback.org/betagems/gems/rubygems-update-0.9.4.1.gem > > and then install locally. Never having installed a local gem before, I was a bit unsure how to do so, and tried a simple "sudo gem install rubygems- update-0.9.4.3.gem" from the folder I downloaded it to - which successfully installed it, but I was still sitting at 0.9.4. After a hint in #ruby-lang I found out that I needed to unpack the gem and then run "ruby setup.rb" to successfully update to 0.9.4.3. Probably most of you know this. I'm just mentioning it here so people might find it when googling for "gem memory problem". best wishes, alex _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
