Hi, i have dedicated server that is just in testing phase, i have few sites but these have very little traffic.

WHM reports swap file error and the server info reports a full swap file.

I check memory usage and interchange is using loads of memory, i had installed akopia for a looked at it but don't think i will offering it.

How can i un-install akopia and so free up memory.


cheers

I have been wondering the same myself. I took interchange out of my control panel, and none of the accounts on my server are using interchange. As an attempt to stop the thing from running I entered in killall interchange at the bottom of the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local as directed by one of the techs where I have my server.

Well, what do you know.. can't even stop the thing from running as the cpanel folks thought it was so important to make interchange a checked service. :rolleyes: Now whenever you kill it, cpanel "automagically" restarts the piece of poo :angry:

so, if anyone has successfully removed this waste of memory from their servers.. please do share with us. :D

If you run into trouble with the swap file on WHM boxes, the easiest way to correct this and free up the swap is to:

ssh into your box and as root issue:

killall -9 interchange

then

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/startinterchange

i want to get rid of Interchange too...

Originally posted by WeinBar
If you run into trouble with the swap file on WHM boxes, the easiest way to correct this and free up the swap is to:

ssh into your box and as root issue:

killall -9 interchange

then

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/startinterchange


works a treat but how to remove interchange perminatley?

Yeah, I want to get rid of it too...

Anyone?


Sure I can give a killall -9 interchange and automate it with cron but this is not the way offcourse...

Lets just say for the sake of arguement we find a way to kill interchange permanently , any body got any ideas on a replacement perl / cgi cart ? Something we could put into cpanel and allow clients to implement ?
I want to offer a cart to my customers but Akopia sounds like its more headaches than its worth . My server is new as well and I tried to setup the cart on a test site (failed to install) and 6 days later it had created 7 instances of interchange (one each day) and was raising my mem usage about 8% per day . I don't think I ewant to offer this to my customers .......

Originally posted by MrGoodHost
Lets just say for the sake of arguement we find a way to kill interchange permanently , any body got any ideas on a replacement perl / cgi cart ? Something we could put into cpanel and allow clients to implement ?
I want to offer a cart to my customers but Akopia sounds like its more headaches than its worth . My server is new as well and I tried to setup the cart on a test site (failed to install) and 6 days later it had created 7 instances of interchange (one each day) and was raising my mem usage about 8% per day . I don't think I ewant to offer this to my customers .......

Again, the same happened to me.
How can we stop this???

Please cpanel developers, give us the solution !?

I agree!

There needs to be an option to disable this thing, they should just take it out with all the problems people have with it and offer everyone an alternative slot to use their own ecommerce program. With so many ecommerce platforms, it's silly to hard code ONE in the panel that everyone HAS to run. A nice thought on their part but it seems to be a failure for the most part. The software is a memory hog.

Originally posted by Domenico


Again, the same happened to me.
How can we stop this???

Please cpanel developers, give us the solution !?

cpanel3 seems to come with a lot of other odd programs. Does anyone know what these do?

# cpanel3 status
cpaneld (pid 18405 18403) is running...
entropychat is stopped
melange (pid 18415) is running...
stunnel (pid 18430 18428) is running...
interchange is stopped
whostmgrd (pid 18411) is running...
clustermgrd (pid 18413) is running...

Is anything other than cpaneld actually needed?

BTW, I think you can disable interchange by commenting out (put a # character at the beginning) these lines in /etc/rc.d/init.d/cpanel3:

#echo -n "Starting InterChange services: "
#daemon /usr/local/cpanel/bin/startinterchange

BTW, does something in cpanel use port 6667? That port seems to be in use for some reason.

# telnet localhost 6667
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to trapezoid.interserver.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

But will cpanel continue to run when you comment out interchange?

The server status in WHM will give a fail all the time and I don't know what will be influenced by that.

What do you think?

> But will cpanel continue to run when you comment out
> interchange?

Yes.

> The server status in WHM will give a fail all the time
> and I don't know what will be influenced by that.

Do you think that might be a problem? If so, can you be more specific?

I tried to comment it out but it kept restarting. My solution was to delete the interchange dir, I believe it was.
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/interchange

I can live with the red light in the server monitor. This seems to be an extreme measure but what else can you do........

Look at this:

Broadcast message from root Sat Jul 14 04:49:23 2001...
VDI CP3 Layer 2 Auto-Update Commencing
Broadcast message from root Sat Jul 14 04:50:15 2001...
VDI CP3 Layer 2 Install Complete

I think that is why commenting it out doesn't work. CPanel's auto-update feature will overwrite any changes you try to make to the files! I just looked at my /etc/rc.d/init.d/cpanel3 again and the lines that I commented out were no longer commented out.