2008/9/20 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sep 20, 5:54 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi John, > >> Since the usual 64-bit machine I test on (thanks, Samir) is offline >> today I used a similar one (thanks, Bill!) knowing that its owner -- >> Bill "Fllint" Hart -- is safely in the southern hemisphere. >> >> And then I remembered that on that machine Sage won't build because of this: >> ATLAS failed to build because your system is too heavily loaded to >> obtain accurate timing. >> Please restart the build by typing make, when the load on your system >> has decreased. >> >> which is plain silly since the machine has 4 dual core processors and >> *nothing* else is running on it. > > The kernel on that box probably has throttling enabled which increases > the chance to hit the issue considerably. It does not matter in that > case that it is completely unloaded. We tell ATLAS to go ahead and > attempt to build anyway since deactivating the throttling takes root > power.
OK, I remember that being the issue. Maybe Cap'n Flint can magic me the root power from down under. > > In general I will hopefully fix this issue (i.e. restart the build on > failure a couple times) in 3.1.3. > That did not work for me before... Anyway it's possible there are other problems with Warwick computers this weekend since now Bill's machine id not answering my call either. John >> Last time I tried this there were lots of helpful suggestions , but >> none of them worked, so there will not be a 64-bit test build from me >> before the other machine comes back online. >> >> John > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
