On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:22:32PM +0000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: | Hi Listers, | | What are the issues involved in compiling a kernel on a machine with CPU | overclocked ? | | Yesterday I tried to compile 2.4.9 kernel on a celerone machine 466MHZ | which was overclocked to 550MHZ. The motherboard is ASUS P3C2000. | | During kernel compilation the machine is either rebooting in between or it | is giving segmentation fault.
I notice with my machine (not overclocked, BTW) that kernel compilation is a CPU-bound process. It really works the CPU at the max for several minutes. If you are overclocking your CPU then building a kernel, I would not be surprised if it generated excessive heat or if it lost/corrupted data because it doesn't have enough time in a cycle to properly transfer it. I would recommend not overclocking the machine or do your compilation on a different machine. HTH, -D
