Best way make periodic server load

Outdoor

Hello,

I received an email from Oracle regarding the free tier program, that all servers that do not have any activity will be shut down.

What would be the simplest and fastest solution to automatically create a load on the server?

listerine90

start a cronjob and run yabs everyday

DataIdeas-Josh

prime95
mine bitcoins

Andru

Hmm, something like https://github.com/flow2000/lookbusy would work.

Levi

Oracle algos to determine server load is increasingly getting more sofisticated. Why not create wireguard vpn and just use machine for real?

Outdoor

@Andru said:
Hmm, something like https://github.com/flow2000/lookbusy would work.

Something like that will be most simple solution.
But can Oracle detect it? Are there anyother more sofisticated solutions?

Outdoor

@Levi said:
Oracle algos to determine server load is increasingly getting more sofisticated. Why not create wireguard vpn and just use machine for real?

What will be best UI for wireguard?
Interface wheere i can manage servers and users, if i want to share vpn with group of people?

Edit: https://codecanyon.net/item/safer-vpn-crossplatform-wireguard-flutter/50028451
This is look good

Regards

lowendtalkxdax

If you switch to their „pay-as-you-go“ model, they won’t delete your VPS anymore.
The 4x50GB block storage and 4C/24GB ARM, 2x1C/1GB VMs remain free.

Many had the issue of Oracle randomly terminating VMs at the completely free tier.

They have your creditcard info anyways.

(When you change to payg, they will withdraw 100usd which will be returned a few days later, only for verification)

emgh

The sinplest would be to just cron a shell command that does something that causes load, like find the largest files of / or something

farsighter

Duplicate
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/190218/oracle-cloud-how-to-avoid-inactivity-cancellation

kevinds

@Outdoor said:
What would be the simplest and fastest solution to automatically create a load on the server?

Make it useful, install some kind of monitoring software? SmokePing or StatPing.

Run a crontab job once a week and download the latest Debian ISO to ~/Download and then delete it.

listerine90

@Levi said:
Oracle algos to determine server load is increasingly getting more sofisticated. Why not create wireguard vpn and just use machine for real?

How would they determine real vs simulated activity with just statistics alone? Other than that they could be also snooping into the VM's active processes.

lowenduser1

@Outdoor said: What would be the simplest and fastest solution to automatically create a load on the server?

hypothetical one could run the following:

# stress 1 core for 5 minutes
timeout 300 cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null 

# fill the ram for 5 minutes
mkdir /mnt/ram
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs -o size=500M /mnt/ram
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ram/tmp
sleep 300
rm /mnt/ram/tmp

# create some traffic
timeout 300 curl --limit-rate 1M https://ash-speed.hetzner.com/100MB.bin --output /dev/null

Ideally one should remotely scp some uncompressable garbage on random intervals and remove them afterwards. Snippets like the above are educational and will be flagged by hash and other trivial methods