Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 9/12/06, Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am upgrading a few servers. I have noticed that on pentium III, it
> takes a VERY long time to upgrade Ruby 1.8.
>
> It blocks at some stage saying:
>
>
>                              zlib.c: mcccccccccccccccccc...................................................................................
> Generating RI...
>
> Eventually it will finich installing.
>
> I am running RELENG 4.11 p21. Any clue?

Old FreeBSD on old hardware is a recipe for such problems.