Re: random beeps during backup

i suspected that might be the case, hence dropping the cpu count in
the vm guest, and it hasn't beeped since after about 20 backups
running back-to-back (and still going).


On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 21:21, EricZolf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I know this from my Lenovo laptop that it beeps when there is a hardware issue, e.g. CPU overheating. It's definitely not rdiff-backup which beeps. The beeps generally have a meaning you need to decrypt, possibly helped by an app from your vendor.
>
> Hope this helps, Eric
>
> On April 26, 2021 8:22:32 AM UTC, griffin tucker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 17:42, griffin tucker
> ><[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> my debian testing virtual machine randomly beeps, sometimes really
> >> long beeps, when running rdiff-backup after a long time (overnight)
> >> and only when interacting with the installation while it's still
> >> running
> >>
> >> nothing in /var/log/messages
> >>
> >> rdiff-backup doesn't report any errors (empty log file)
> >>
> >> i've limited it's processor count to 2 and re-run it, and there's no
> >> beeping anymore
> >>
> >> i'm just wondering, can i cap rdiff-backup's cpu usage to a
> >percentage
> >> so i can utilise all cores but not experience system instability?
> >>
> >> otherwise, can i cap rdiff-backup's thread count?
> >
> >it's also worth noting that i limited rdiff-backup with nice and
> >ionice but the beeping still occurred
>