Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:32:43PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Do you think it’s a likely problem? Andreas, could you try again on >> your Novena with 2 cores turned off? > > I have trouble believing the explanation of overheating. The gmp test > suite is carried out sequentially (they are not yet using the parallel > test harness of the autotools). So one could only imagine that the build > itself was faulty, but should then the test not fail consistently afterwards? > If I understood correctly, you used one build and ran the same test > over and over again. On the other hand, since the machine also serves as a > build machine, it is possible that some other package was built at the same > time as the tests were carried out, which may have contributed to heating.
Yes. I think the only way to test the hypothesis is to turn off 2 processors and run that test in a loop again, and/or to do that on a different ARMv7 platform altogether. Ludo’.
