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Subject: bug#21620: tests/mpz/reuse intermittently fails on armhf-linux-gnu
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 10:27:07 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: 21620@debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Enge <andreas.enge@inria.fr>

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 agai=
n 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 afterwa=
rds?
> 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 sa=
me
> 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.

Ludo=E2=80=99.