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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#21620: tests/mpz/reuse intermittently fails on armhf-linux-gnu
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:43:23 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:
>
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:32:43PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>>>> Do you think it=E2=80=99s a likely problem?  Andreas, could you try ag=
ain 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 after=
wards?
>>> 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 a=
s 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 heati=
ng.
>>
>> 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=E2=80=99t think we=E2=80=99ve had this problem again, which suggests =
that the
overheating hypothesis was right.

Closing!

Ludo=E2=80=99.