[ltp] Re: rebooting under heavy load

[Macskasi Csaba]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 20:48:10 +0200, Marcus Better <marcus@better.se> wrote:

> 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
>
>

Well, that doesn't make much sense, does it? While compiling, we usually  
want full power...
Nasty crashes occured on my thinkpad due to heavy undervolting. They  
happen randomly.

Check wether your machine respones to ping or not!

Regards,
Csaba


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