Hi,

On Dec 2, 2014, at 15:13, Barry Kauler <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/30/14, Barry Kauler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 11/29/14, René Rebe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Nov 29, 2014, at 16:23, Barry Kauler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The first time that I did a build recently, using rev 43395, my laptop
>>>> crashed when building gcc at stage 5.
>>>> Just died, instantly, turned completely off.
>>>> 
>>>> So I powered up again, didn't bother with a f.s. check, ran
>>>> Build-Target again, this time gcc succeeded and the rest of the build
>>>> completed.
>>>> 
>>>> Second build, no problem.
>>> 
>>> Sounds like the CPU (and i/o) load of compiling gcc caused overheat, or
>>> otherwise data integrity problem :-/
>>> 
>>>> This morning I started the third build. This time, crashed at gcc
>>>> stage-5. Did a f.s. check and tried again, crashed again. And again,
>>>> and again.
>>>> 
>>>> Not good.
>>>> 
>>>> I currently only have two laptops to build on. Ok, I will copy
>>>> everything over to my old laptop and see what happens.
>>> 
>> 
>> Ah, my old laptop has succeeded!
>> 
>> It is a faithful old workhorse. Acer model 3681WXMi, 60GB HD, 512MB
>> RAM, Celeron M 410 1.46GHz (single core CPU).
>> 
>> As I didn't have enough space on the HD, I plugged in a USB HD -- only
>> USB-2.
>> 
>> So, very slow. But, it chugged away overnight, through today. Sailed
>> through compiling 'gcc' at stage-5.
>> 
>> Which makes me wonder about the cores in my latest laptop. Its an i3
>> Intel CPU, with 4 cores, and T2 is using all 4.
>> I will configure T2 to use just 1 core, and we will see what happens.
>> 
> 
> Reporting the outcome.
> 
> On my main laptop, I reduced number of jobs in parallel from 4 down to
> 1, in the T2 menuconfig.
> 
> Slower, but now my laptop does not crash.
> 
> Very interesting.


If it has 4 cores you could try if reducing to 2 is stable enough. Or put it 
next to an aircon, or into a refrigerator:

http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2004/05/040517_efficeonFreeze/040517_efficeonFreeze.htm

        René

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