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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
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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
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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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In reply to Math::Pari Taking forever and a day.. by scottstef

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