On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:57:47AM -0500, P Prince wrote:
| Simon,
|
| On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon R Tod wrote:
|
| > My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. When I came back to it
| > this morning it was very hot, the fan was kicking in evert minute or two
Since you were compiling a kernel, I would expect it to get warmer.
The CPU works harder compiling a kernel than it does doing nothing
:-). (still, it shouldn't get that hot)
| > and everything was working really slowly.... It's now just ceased up
| > completely. The text has disappeared off my xterm and I can't get any
| > movement out of the mouse. I don't see how I can do anything but just
| > turn the power off, leave it for a few hours to cool down then reboot.
|
| Hey, it happens. Often.
It shouldn't.
| The results are no worse than a Windows hard-reboot,
If you are lucky. Linux does quite a bit of disk cacheing to improve
performance. If you hard-reboot before it has written those blocks to
disk you have major problems. If the machine was idle for a while
(and running!) then the disks will be synced and you are probably ok.
-D
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Stay away from a foolish man,
for you will not find knowledge on his lips.
Proverbs 14:7
