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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:32:42 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        snagit@cbpratt.prohosting.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Prevent process in disk wait
Message-ID:  <200610130132.k9D1WgwY005831@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <0779903C-A01F-4CF0-AF1F-3DA317511598@cbpratt.prohosting.com> (message from Chris on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:44:36 -0700)
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> While installing the Ruby port on a 6.1-Release system (uname -a
> ...
> 37788  p0  DL+   39:43.11 ./ruby18 ./bin/rdoc --all --ri --op
> /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system .
>
> The system is an old Pentium 5 with a standard IDE drive. Is there a

I got hit bit that a couple of times too.

For some reason, Ruby at some stage tries to browse the complete hard
disk in order to find things like libraries.

At least that's what I guessed.

Anser was: get a better/newer hardware.

olivier



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