Zane Gilmore wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, July 17, 2007 2:27 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote:
I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that
there a
sound recurring in a reasonably random way.
It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval
between
approx 1 second to about
10 seconds.
This makes listening to music impossible.
Can anyone think of a way of tracking down it's source?
Cheers,
Zane
what are you listening on? computer? ipod/mp3 player? you have the
band in
your office?
Assuming computer, does it make the same sound using different player
software?
Yes on my desktop computer running Kubuntu and some very hungry scripts.
As it turned out one of the scripts I had written to do some DB
manipulation finished what it was doing then the dripping tap stopped.
My script was using all of the CPU it could get it hands on and was
using hundreds of megs of RAM. When it finished so did the dripping
tap... spooky
The script had nothing to do with the sound system it was just a
Python script.
I don't have much of a clue what the hell it could have been... maybe
some sort of resource alert?
It was very irritating
Zane
Was your script doing lots of context switches or interrupts?
