# Gem update --system: how to tell if it's making progress? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 24, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-how-to-tell-if-its-making-progress/141312 "2008-06-24T16:48:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-how-to-tell-if-its-making-progress/141312/1 "2008-06-24T16:48:06Z")
Hello, Today I decided to upgrade rubygems on my server from 1.0.0 to 1.2.0. So I ran: sudo gem update --system. That was 4 hours ago. I’d like to know whether it’s stuck or whether it’s actually making progress (and if so, when it might finish). On the console I have: $ sudo gem update --system Updating RubyGems… Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) The output from top looks like: Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 75.8% id, 24.1% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 262316k total, 260032k used, 2284k free, 120k buffers Swap: 524280k total, 362352k used, 161928k free, 1264k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26705 root 18 0 516m 192m 136 R 0 75.1 0:25.30 gem I’d appreciate any advice about what to do. Regards, Andy S. ---
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-how-to-tell-if-its-making-progress/141312/2 "2008-06-24T18:05:01Z")
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:45:30PM +0900, Andrew S. wrote: > sudo gem update --system. > > That was 4 hours ago. You can download 1.2.0 here: [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126) Just unzip (or tar xzf) and run `ruby setup.rb` inside the extracted folder. \_why ---
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-how-to-tell-if-its-making-progress/141312/3 "2008-06-24T18:50:46Z")
On 24 Jun 2008, at 17:02, \_why wrote: > You can download 1.2.0 here: > [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126) > > Just unzip (or tar xzf) and run `ruby setup.rb` inside the extracted > folder. That worked perfectly, and took but a few seconds. Thank you. Regards, Andy S.