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I am working on a perl program to monitor what files are being created and deleted on a computer. It is a very long running program(about 3 hrs) and about 1.5 hrs into it, it the system speaker starts beeping. It takes all of my ram to run it(i have very little) and I am wondering whether it has to do with this. The only code I can think of that would do it looks like this:

Code:

 for (@n_files) { #foreach files just pulled off hd

      $new = $_;

              for (@old_files) {

                  $old = $_;

                  if ($new eq $old) {

                    print "$new:$old match found\n";

                    $old_files[$old] = undef;

                    $n_filesp[$old] = undef;

                    $part++ #for percent complete

                    $match = 'yes';

                    }else{

                        system("clear"); #maybe the issue

                        print ($part/$whole)*100;

              }

        }

    if  ($match ne 'yes') {

        print "New File: $new\n";

        <STDIN>;

    }else{

        $match = undef;

      }

}

Maybe the real problem is your motherboard.

Please look here and see if you can find a match for your motherboard mfg/model:
http://pcsupport.about.com/cs/mother.../beepcodes.htm
http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml
<= "PC-Hell beepcodes" cross-references a several different kinds of BIOS's/Mobo's

Quote:

1 short - DRAM refresh failure - The programmable interrupt timer or programmable interrupt controller has probably failed.

That is the only beep code that would match mine, What does this mean, and why would it happen?