What sort of a hog is Ruby?

[Graham Menhennitt]

On 07/10/2016 17:35, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Looks like I need to upgrade it for security issues; so I tried to compile 
> it from the ports area.
>
> First it blew out my disk space (the "work" sub-directory), so when I 
> rearranged a few things to make more room it blew out my swap space!
>
Not sure what's going on with yours, but mine doesn't show any of those
symptoms. I build it regularly on a relatively low spec box (AMD G-T40E
Processor (1000.02-MHz K8-class CPU) with 4Gb RAM). Which version of
Ruby and which version of FreeBSD?

Graham