> drive thrashing I heard at the time was swapping rather than just normal code compilation. Funny how that was such a signal back then. Did the program crash?

> drive thrashing I heard at the time was swapping rather than just normal code compilation. Funny how that was such a signal back then. Did the program crash? Lets listen. No, I can still hear it, its just taking its time. I'm not sure how long it took for me to realize the noise was coming from the drives and that wasn't the sound a cpu under load makes. Maybe a cpu under load noise (or an increasing brightness light) would actually be useful in some contexts: no need to hop on and run htop just look from across the room.