[ltp] Re: rebooting under heavy load

Marcus Better linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 14 May 2007 20:48:10 +0200


Richard Mittendorfer wrote:
>> I suspect overheating. Has anyone experienced this? I will try to
>> get temperature readings...
> 
> Looks like.

Not sure anymore... /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature never went
above 72 C. The laptop is standing on a flat wooden desk and is quite new,
so there's not much dust. Still the build crashed after about one hour,
with continuous disk activity, blank screen and an unresponsive system. I
could reboot with the keyboard though.

> Also throttling down the CPU might help.

Thanks, will give it a try.

Marcus