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GMP 6.0.0a intermittent test failure on armhf

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, 21620-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21620: tests/mpz/reuse intermittently fails on armhf-linux-gnu
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:43:23 +0200

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> skribis:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:32:43PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>> Do you think it’s a likely problem?  Andreas, could you try again 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 afterwards?
>>> 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 same
>>> 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.
>
> Did you have a chance to do that?  What can we conclude?

I don’t think we’ve had this problem again, which suggests that the
overheating hypothesis was right.

Closing!

Ludo’.

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