On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 17:42, griffin tucker <rdiffabkcuapbup9...@griffintucker.id.au> 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
