utserver stop? can't shut down PC properly...

[MetZen]

Hello, I'm willing to use utorrent-server under linux mint 16 cinnamon. My current version is utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3.

 

The problem is that there's no way to stop it other than killing the process, otherways when I try to shut down linux it would stay forever on with a black screen. The same happened with v3.0.

 

Also it's consuming about a constant ++/- 80% of the resources from my core 2 duo 2.4ghz, with the fan very loud, even though it's downloading just at about +/- 50 kb/s all the time, I think it shouldn't be.

 

Is it safe to kill the process?

Last time I forced shut down I lost the utorrent settings, proxy and all.

 

Is there a way I can stop utserver safely?

I've used for earlier versions a start/stop script from a blog I found, but when I used it to stop utserver it didn't allow me to shut down either.

 

What might be the cause for linux not shutting down while utserver on?

 

Thanks

[mcdonald]

'Killing' processes is an acceptable way to stop processes in Unix-like operating systems.  It's a matter of which signal you send to the process; you have a choice with the 'kill' command.  I would send the TERM/terminate (15) signal to the utserver process; that will signal it to shut down gracefully.  Try to avoid sending the KILL signal (9) to it, since the OS will terminate it without letting it shut down gracefully.  I don't know what you mean by "forced shut down"; does that mean sending it the KILL signal?

 

If the utServer process doesn't die when you want to halt your computer, then you can kill -9 it, but first try to stop it in a way allowing for graceful shutdown.

 

If you are running it in the foreground of a command tool, you can also press control-C to stop that process.

[MetZen]

Thx for answering and for the kill -15 process ID tip! looks good and does the job.

I'm so insistent about utserver coz it's the only one I could manage to make it work over my http proxy, so I'm glad it's rocking on!

 

By force linux shut down when I get this black screen I mean pressing the start/shutdown button from my laptop for a while until it halts, it would be like disconnecting it from AC power and taking the battery off. So it's a bit drastic when less (don't know if that expression is valid in english ), and I'm not willing to do it very often. 

 

Thank you and best wishes.