[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Andreas Enge <[email protected]> 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? TIA! :-) Ludo’.
