Problem: my desktop system hangs. Question: what to do next

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 05:33:57PM -0400, Mel Wilson wrote:
> A cursory look shows nothing obviously wrong.  The thing it, it will run
> for days, as long as I don't try to run a big build like gdb or
> summon-arm-toolchain .  Even building openocd doesn't seem to be enough
> to bring it down.

gdb likely runs a pretty heavy testsuite as part of the build.

Overheating/bad power is still very likely the problem.

Does it like a kernel build with make -j4?  Perhaps a loop doing make
clean and make -j4 of the kernel for a while.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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