portupgrade: ruby state=swread

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Pascal Bleyler wrote:

>There are only 3 ports needing an update, one of this port
>is ruby.
>pkg_info means i have ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 installed
>and under /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby is
>ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz (i think it's the update version)
>
>All ran fine but since 1hour top shows me the following:
>
>----
>last pid: 12998;  load averages:  0.47,  0.18,  0.06    up 0+03:12:40
>23:28:35
>41 processes:  1 running, 40 sleeping
>CPU states:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.8% system,  0.4% interrupt, 98.0%
>idle
>Mem: 82M Active, 4340K Inact, 24M Wired, 5268K Cache, 22M Buf, 480K Free
>Swap: 231M Total, 126M Used, 105M Free, 54% Inuse, 956K In
>
>  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>12613 root        1 -20    0   123M 87500K swread   6:29  0.05% ruby18
>----
>
>The output of portupgrade -a is also since 1hour:
><snip>
>stringio.c: c.............................
>strscan.c: cc................................
>Generating RI...
>
>
>I use FreeBSD_6.1.RELEASE without the today published
>patch for FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl 
>
>What can i do now? I don't want to kill the update process. Dunno
>what happens then.... :/
>  
>
You haven't got enough free memory and the process is swapping - swread 
== swap read.  Give it time and it should finish.  If you have other 
processes using significant memory which you can kill off that might help.

--Alex