Restarting rTorrent

Restart from the panel

A test account with rTorrent not running: an amber ring on the ruTorrent tab, and Open and Start on its tile.

rTorrent restarts with one click on the panel's Welcome tab. Under Your apps, its tile is called ruTorrent: press Restart while rTorrent runs, or Start when the tile shows it is not running, whether it stopped on its own or you stopped it. The Configure tab's rTorrent + ruTorrent row has Restart and Start too, plus Stop (on a panel without Configure, use the Welcome tab). It takes a couple of minutes to restart, after which you need to refresh ruTorrent by reloading the page.

The same test account after Stop: no ruTorrent tab, and the tile shows Off with Start.

If you stop rTorrent with Stop, the ruTorrent tab leaves the top bar. Press Start and reload the panel to bring it back.

If this does not work and rTorrent does not start, every server has automatic 2nd level redundancy for rTorrent instances checking every 10 to 15 minutes. If rTorrent still has not started after 15 minutes, please contact support.

Restarting rTorrent manually

You can also restart rTorrent by connecting via SSH with PuTTY or another SSH client.

Log in with the credentials from your welcome email.
Check if rTorrent is running: screen -list
If it is not running, start it: screen -S rtorrent rtorrent
If it still does not appear in screen -list, you are probably over your quota. Remove files from your box via FTP or from the File Manager in the seedbox GUI.

rTorrent is automatically restarted if it crashes.

Possible reasons why rTorrent does not start

The most common cause is reaching your disk quota. rTorrent cannot write to disk when the quota is full. Check your disk usage before contacting support.

Other causes:

Corrupted session data — see Removing rTorrent session data
Lock file left behind after a crash — usually cleared automatically within a few minutes
Server maintenance in progress — check the announcements in the News card on the Welcome tab

PMSS dual level redundancy

PMSS has two levels of redundancy for rTorrent:

First level: Checks once per minute
Second level: If the first level fails, a backup check runs every 10 to 15 minutes

This means rTorrent should restart automatically within 15 minutes of any crash, without intervention.

Restart from the panel

Restarting rTorrent manually

Possible reasons why rTorrent does not start

PMSS dual level redundancy

See also