[Novalug] can noise from a computer tell you something?

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Mon Sep 2 10:13:31 EDT 2013


Perhaps.  Do you do a semi-annual Clean & Inspect?  *

* Based on your questions, I assume not!

Buy quality fans, not cheap ones.

Jay

> So, no little blinky light to show when your HD is being hammered?
>
> My other question would involve possibly a cooling fan that's not
> working right - too much dust perhaps?
>
> Ed James
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Nino Pereira <ninorpereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> on occasion, and just now, I notice a lot of ticking and clicking from my
>> computer. I have 8 terminal windows open, one for mail and one for
>> libreoffice with a 1 Mb file, and when I open acrobat reader to look at
>> the same file the computer becomes noisy, I can't move the open windows
>> from one screen to the other as the machine is apparently too busy to
>> listen to what I want. Then, the noise stops, and the machine starts to
>> follow orders again.
>>
>> Does this tell you something? like, too little memory perhaps?
>> cat /proc/meminfo (below) gives lots of information that I can't evaluate.
>> Is what I have a lot, or a little (compared to the needs).
>> ...
>> .
>>
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