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 <rdiffabkcuapbup9...@griffintucker.id.au> wrote: >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
