On 14 Mar 2008, at 12:24, Elise Huard wrote:

> On 14 mar, 00:53, Chris Shea <cms... / gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 13, 4:02 pm, Elise Huard <huard.el... / gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>>> i've got a brand new Macbook Pro.
>>> I've got ruby 1.8.6, as well as the usual gems.
>>> However, running gem install, or even rspec (which uses gem) takes a
>>> long time (2 minutes).  I've tried debugging, and got as far as
>>>   updated = @source_index.update source_uri
>>> in source_info_cache_entry.rb, which seems to take a while (there
>>> might be other slow parts, that's just one of them).
>>> It all works, but for rspec for instance it's quite annoying to have
>>> to wait that long.
>>> I tried profiling but that didn't yield anything that i could parse.
>>
>>> Any ideas or similar experience ?
>>> Thanks,
>>
>>> Elise
>>
>> You might want to check out this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/4f 
>> ...
>>
>> I had the same problem, but only after updating to Leopard.  In that
>> thread I mention changing my DNS servers, but I've dropped that part
>> of the solution. Basically, what I did was disable IPv6 (System
>> Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> TCP/IP -> Configure IPv6) and
>> add "require 'resolv-replace'" to my copy of gem at /usr/local/bin/ 
>> gem
>> (of course, that goes away after gem update --system).
>>
>> HTH,
>> Chris
>
> Thanks !  I'll try that tonight.  Failing that, i'll check the
> version, and upgrade if dated.
> Best Regards,
>
> Elise
>

Also, I have noticed that gem installs run significantly faster from a  
machine in the western hemisphere (inside anywhere in the US).

Is there a need for more EU mirrors presently? Are the mirrors geo- 
distributing correctly?