> |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes
> |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there
> |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How
> |> do you troubleshoot something like this?
> |>
> |> - Grant
> |
> | Start with "ls_sensors" and monitor CPU and motherboard temp.
> +1 to that. I had a laptop that was doing the exact same thing. I
> installed lm_sensors and saw that at rest my temp was generally 40C
> (that's with powersave enabled). When I compiled the temp would go up
> to 75C...I think the highest I ever got it was 77C.* A /little/ over 40
> is too hot...
>
> *For the Americans (like me) the easy way for C -> F is double it,
> subtract 10% and add 32. So the temps would be 104F, 167F and 171F.

The laptop has stopped freezing now. Not sure what was going on.
Thanks a lot for all the help and I'll refer back if I need to.

- Grant
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