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scottstef has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to install Net::SFTP (via cpan) and one of the requirements is Math::Pari. When I install Math::Pari, it seems to take forever on its testing. Running top on the machine shows the cpu being pegged and it has been like this for over a day.

7:59am up 21:47, 4 users, load average: 1.18, 1.55, 1.71 80 processes: 70 sleeping, 3 running, 2 zombie, 5 stopped CPU states: 98.8% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 126964K av, 123812K used, 3152K free, 41792K shrd, 1562 +4K buff Swap: 205088K av, 41924K used, 163164K free 2222 +8K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COM +MAND 1228 root 20 0 36032 35M 1880 R 0 94.6 28.3 1088m per +l 657 root 0 0 11064 10M 1140 S 0 4.1 8.7 96:19 X 1246 scotstef 2 0 880 880 668 R 0 0.9 0.6 12:05 top

Math::Pari seems to be hung on test number 26 under t/nfields. I know this has failed a few of the graphing tests, but I don't plan (or know how) to use them.

/Pari..............FAILED tests 7, 57 + Failed 2/102 tests, 98.04% okay t/PlotRect..........# Can't locate Term/Gnuplot.pm in @INC, ignoring t +he test skipped test on this platform t/analyz............ok, 2/6 skipped: various reasons + t/elliptic..........FAILED tests 1, 4-5, 7-12, 14-15, 17-36, 38-42, 44 + Failed 37/46 tests, 19.57% okay (-3 skipped tests: 6 okay, 13.04%) t/graph.............# Can't locate Term/Gnuplot.pm in @INC, ignoring p +lotting t/graph.............FAILED tests 4, 10, 15-17, 20-21, 23 + Failed 8/28 tests, 71.43% okay (-3 skipped tests: 17 okay, 60.71%) t/linear............FAILED tests 1-2, 11, 16, 37, 75-77 + Failed 8/105 tests, 92.38% okay (-2 skipped tests: 95 okay, 90.48% +) t/nfields...........NOK 26

Is this normal? I am running this on a red hat 6.2 box with a 450mgz processor and 128 mb of ram. I also had the guy in the next cube try installing it and it got hung at the same point. Any help would be appreciated.

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