Oh! What joy! It does work indeed! Many thanks for the solution. P.
On 24 Lis, 22:34, "Brian Hogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a problem with your particular version of Rubygems. I just worked > around it here. The amount of RAM you need for the bulk update depends > on the amount of Gems you have installed. > > The easy solution is to upgrade to 1.3.0 or higher where bulk updating > no longer happens. > > wgethttp://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43984/rubygems-update-1.3.0.gem > sudo gem install rubygems-update-1.3.0.gem > sudo update_rubygems > > Then to make sure you have the latest... > > sudo gem update --system > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM, expilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What on earth could it be? Ruby version? Mine is 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 > > patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux] I tried again latest (1.3.1) version and > > it behaves the same. It slowly eats memory until about 80% and then > > starts swapping heavily. Maybe that's simply the way it's supposed to > > be nowadays and one can only add more RAM? Can you say how much RAM > > you got? > > > Piotr > > > On 24 Lis, 19:00, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 24 Nov 2008, at 17:54, expilo wrote: > > >> > So what RAM size would you recommend? If 512MB is too little another > >> > tool is really needed, at least for those on low memory VPSs. > > >> I don't honestly know, but what I was trying to say is that that > >> problem has gone away since rubygems 1.2. If you've still got that > >> problem then it's something else > > >> > Piotr > > >> > On 24 Lis, 18:41, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> 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 downloadhttp://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml(27M) 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
