Thread: N900 reboots while compiling or uncomprising files
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anthonie is offline anthonie
2011-06-21 , 11:55
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Originally Posted by ebasconp View Post
Hi everybody;

I'm doing some tests with my n900 and installed EasyDebian and also created a chrooted Gentoo image to play with it.

My problem comes when my N900 is compiling very huge files or is uncomprising some huge files (KDE packages on EasyDebian or Qt source code in Gentoo)... When my N900 is working on that kind of tasks, it suddenly reboots and if I try to repeat the process, the reboot occurs again in the same moment or when compiling/uncomprising other stuff.

So, did someone have some similar behavior on his/her N900? Is it a known behavior? (I am thinking the excessive heat is causing such a problem) If it is, did someone find some workaround on this?

Thanks in advance.
Yep. Same problem as you have. And worse, it creates some invalid handles as well so I end up replacing the ext2 image, every time after this involuntary reboot occurs. Will try the swappiness proposal but, of course, wouldn't mind hearing from you first if it worked or not

BTW, which Gentoo are you using?