Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:17:41 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Pete Slagle <freebsd-questions@voidcaptain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ruby gaining weight? Message-ID: <452181F5.5010904@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <45217C65.5040406@voidcaptain.com> References: <45217C65.5040406@voidcaptain.com>
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Pete Slagle wrote: >Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual >memory to build with portupgrade or "make install clean." > >I have several "classic" boxes running bind and a mail MTA on 4.11 that >are memory-limited, but otherwise work well. The main boards are maxed >out at 64 MB of RAM, and they have 128 MB of swap. The ruby build fails > as swap space becomes exhausted. > >Sure, I could reorganize the hard drives on these boxes to add more >swap, but nothing else needs more that a few KB. Moreover, rebuilding >the hard drives is to be avoided since these machines are part of a >basic infrastructure that has been stable for years. > >Is ruby really that piggy, or do I just have a configuration issue? > > Karol Kwiatkowski wrote less than a week ago: >Just some thoughts as others already identified the problem: > >here's similar thread with some workarounds: >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-September/131328.html > >In the meantime I've found NOPORTDOCS variable - if you don't need >ruby docs just disable them (docs are generated during install part) > ># cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18 ># make -DNOPORTDOCS install > >The install part without docs takes about 30 seconds on 400Mhz/96MB >machine (it would take hours otherwise). > >HTH, > >Karol > > >
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