Does GVH kill torrent processes?

[dzchimpo]

Does gvh keep tabs on what processes are running on containers and kill processes? I had deluge running on one of my containers, and found that even though I didnt have any torrents active, the daemon kept being killed. I even had a script check the process list and start up the daemon every minute it wasnt already started, and its log showed that every couple of minutes, the daemon was killed.

Have you faced anything like this?

 

[kcaj]

Certainly possible. I think the bigger question is, why on earth are you hosting with GVH? Their attitude towards customers is appalling.

 

[drmike]

Process hunting like this is somewhat intrusive and many frown about it.    Usually it's simply avoided by renaming your daemon

 

[dzchimpo]

 

Certainly possible. I think the bigger question is, why on earth are you hosting with GVH? Their attitude towards customers is appalling.

None of my sites are on GVH. 250GB of storage and plenty of bandwidth. It just begs to be used as a torrent server.

Process hunting like this is somewhat intrusive and many frown about it.    Usually it's simply avoided by renaming your daemon

Come on.. It can't be that simple!

 

[kcaj]

 



None of my sites are on GVH. 250GB of storage and plenty of bandwidth. It just begs to be used as a torrent server.

Come on.. It can't be that simple!

I can think of better hosts with similar resource limits at the same price for torrenting.

 

[dzchimpo]

I can think of better hosts with similar resource limits at the same price for torrenting.

Who? Pray tell.

 

[kcaj]

Who? Pray tell.

BuyVM storage plans. 500GB disk space and 5TB of bandwidth for $15usd. US based yes, but many customers there use their boxes for torrenting and haven't any problems.

 

[dzchimpo]

BuyVM storage plans. 500GB disk space and 5TB of bandwidth for $15usd. US based yes, but many customers there use their boxes for torrenting and haven't any problems.

That's $15 per month, right? This one is $47 per year.

 

[kcaj]

That's $15 per month, right? This one is $47 per year.

Apologies then, I was looking at their monthly plans on their website.

 

[WebSearchingPro]

They probably started killing torrent processes globally since those 100TB plans likely caused a huge problem with people torrenting and bandwidth utilization.

 

[Virtovo]

Would be good for you to get their official response on this.  Have you opened a ticket?  Have you tried renaming the daemon to see if it is still killed?

 

[dzchimpo]

Would be good for you to get their official response on this.  Have you opened a ticket?  Have you tried renaming the daemon to see if it is still killed?

And be terminated? Though their official TOS as per http://www.greenvaluehost.com/termsofservice.html doesnt mention torrents as unacceptable, I believe the post in LET might have mentioned this.

I'm not sure. I dont want to risk by termination by asking them.

 

[Virtovo]

And be terminated? Though their official TOS as per http://www.greenvaluehost.com/termsofservice.html doesnt mention torrents as unacceptable, I believe the post in LET might have mentioned this.

I'm not sure. I dont want to risk by termination by asking them.

Ah sorry, not been keeping an eye on what they allow or not allow.  Although I'd say if it's not in their ToS or AUP you're at least safe until they rewrite their ToS.  If you cant use torrents at the moment because the process keeps getting killed, do you have a lot to lose?

Any other processes being killed? Specifically high RAM processes?  

 

[dzchimpo]

Ah sorry, not been keeping an eye on what they allow or not allow.  Although I'd say if it's not in their ToS or AUP you're at least safe until they rewrite their ToS.  If you cant use torrents at the moment because the process keeps getting killed, do you have a lot to lose?

Any other processes being killed? Specifically high RAM processes?  

I've been using a lesser known torrent client without any issues. I don't have any other significant processes running on it. Just apache and deluge.

 

[Virtovo]

I've been using a lesser known torrent client without any issues. I don't have any other processes running on it. Just apache and deluge.

Any difference in the RAM usage between the two?

One other test to see if they are searching out processes to kill is to rename something small and harmless to deluge and see what happens

 

[kcaj]

I'll open a sales ticket with them asking whether they permit torrents or not.

 

[Virtovo]

From this thread: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/24179/greenvaluehost-disk-i-o-is-poor-post-your-dd-result-here/p2

"Torrents are allowed as long as they are legal. We don't have any hidden restrictions on torrents."

 

[dzchimpo]

Any difference in the RAM usage between the two?

One other test to see if they are searching out processes to kill is to rename something small and harmless to deluge and see what happens

Well, renamed mc to deluge and checked. It wasnt killed. Maybe it's just my daemon.

 

[WebSearchingPro]

Well, renamed mc to deluge and checked. It wasnt killed. Maybe it's just my daemon.

If I recall, sometimes just renaming it doesn't actually mean thats what will show up in "ps" which I assume is what they are using.

If MC = MineCraft then the process name will be "java"

 

[dzchimpo]

If I recall, sometimes just renaming it doesn't actually mean thats what will show up in "ps" which I assume is what they are using.


If MC = MineCraft then the process name will be "java"

In this case, mc->midnight commander.

After a:


mv /usr/bin/mc /usr/bin/deluged

and running mc:

#ps ax | grep 'deluge'
24286 pts/2    T      0:00 deluged