On Jan 22, 2008, at 06:14 AM, Max Williams wrote:
> Max Williams wrote:
>> I'm switching a project over to working in a linux virtual machine,
>> running in windows xp.  Ruby and rails are working generally, but
>> there's one gem (ferret) that i need to get for this project.  I  
>> typed
>> in "gem install ferret" and got a message "Updating metadata for 903
>> gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org".
>>
>> Fair enough, except that it's been doing that for over an hour now  
>> (more
>> like an hour and a half).  Whenever i've done this in windows it's  
>> taken
>> a minute or two at most.
>>
>> Does anyone know why it might be so slow?  My network connection  
>> (wired)
>> out of the linux vm is otherwise pretty fast, about 6 Mb at the  
>> moment.
>>
> I ended up killing this and forcing the install without update with
>
> sudo gem install ferret --no-update-sources
>
> So, i'm up and running but still puzzled over why it was taking so  
> long.
> I tried starting it again and once again it looked like taking much
> longer than usual (I killed it again).  So, if anyone has any ideas  
> i'd
> still like to know :)

Can you run it under the profiler?