[foobarian]

That reminds me of when I had a computer with spinning rust hard drives on my desk in grad school. At some point I was trying to focus but there was a periodic, roughly once a second hard drive noise that was driving me nuts. Went through the usual suspects at the time like the background locatedb updater, and eventually ended up finding that some bot was trying to ssh login once per second going down a list of passwords, and the errors were being logged to disk. Need I mention the computer had a public IP address?