l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > >> 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. > > Did you have a chance to do that? What can we conclude?
I don’t think we’ve had this problem again, which suggests that the overheating hypothesis was right. Closing! Ludo’.