[Rock-dev] 2GB + Autoproj + Ruby 1.9

[Chris Mueller]

Hio,

i have currently some performance issues with autoproj for building my 
complete setup
for AVALON and RIMRES. Some bigger packages always seems to consume all 
of my available
2 GB RAM and it's impossible to run other application because the 
building process take of the
complete control of my notebook and freezes (until i abort the process).

After that i start cmake manually and it works fine without blocking the 
complete system.

I'm not sure if 2 GB RAM are addressed to be insufficient, but i'm 
currently searching for improving
my current situation.

I'm playing with the idea to switch to the newer Ruby 1.9 branch in 
order to benefit from the more
effective interpreter implemenation (and hoping it's garbage collector 
is a little more efficient).

Unfortanetly switching to another ruby version is also a little risk to 
break the setup because of
some incompabilities. Before trying i would like to ask if there are 
already some people here
using the complete rock toolchain with ruby 1.9 and can share some 
experiences.

Best Regards
Chris