On 24 Nov 2008, at 17:33, expilo wrote:

>
> I got 512 MB. Maybe that's too little? I don't think it's the internet
> problem. I can download http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml (27 M) with
> wget in 3 min 46 s.
>
You might well be under pressure with that much ram. I've never had  
that problem since rubygems 1.2

Fred
> Piotr
>
> On 24 Lis, 16:15, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You can download the .gem files yourself and install them. Since
>> rubygems 1.2 i've never had any problems, but prior versions were a
>> bit problematic (especially on machines with not so much memory)
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> On Nov 24, 3:04 pm, Bobnation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> The only time I've run into anything similar is when my internet has
>>> either went *kaput* or a firewall setting at work stopped me from
>>> downloading any gems automatically. I would maybe check there first.
>>
>>> On Nov 24, 8:15 am, expilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>> Hello,
>>
>>>> I have been trying for the last three days on two different debian
>>>> linux platforms x386 and amd64 using different rubygems versions
>>>> 1.1.1, 1.2.0 and 1.3.1 to update gems on my system. No way! It only
>>>> says it's  doing a bulk source update, eats all memory and does
>>>> nothing. The longest I was waiting was 10 hours. Surely that's  
>>>> enough
>>>> to update rails installation with dependencies and a couple of  
>>>> other
>>>> gems  on a 1Mb cable line? It seems I'll have to learn to live with
>>>> manual gem downloads. So my question is: how do you live without
>>>> rubygems when you have to? Has anyone any shell scripts that use  
>>>> awk
>>>> or sed, tar and wget? I'm sure they would do a better job. I'm  
>>>> close
>>>> to start writing one but maybe someone already got something like
>>>> this.
>>
>>>> Many thanks for any hints
>>
>>>> Piotr
> >


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