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 <ewl+rdiffbac...@lavar.de> 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 > <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 >
