Respawn needs a retry time

[yanegomi at gmail.com]

I agree. Having a retry time is important for restarting dead
processes, needing to be restarted.
-Garrett

On 6/15/08, Marius Karthaus <lists at karthaus.nl> wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I feel I'm missing an option for respawn: the retry time.
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> If I define a service in upstart, it will try to respawn the service
> with the set limits, for instance (default) by retrying 10 times in 5
> seconds. Now let's assume that a program is unable to start because of
> whatever reason during just 1 second. In that time, depending on how
> fast the program exits it will be tried 10 times and the program will
> never ever be started again by upstart. To me this is bad behavior.
> I think upstart should try a couple of times, complain that it is unable
> to start the process, wait for some time for the problem to be sorted
> out and try to respawn again.
>
> So I propose a third option to the respawn stanza, the retry time. That
> way we can define a much more sensible respawn strategy.
>
> Example:
> respawn 2 10 30
>
> "if the process I'm trying to keep running dies 5 times in 10 seconds
> I'll wait 30 seconds before trying again"
>
> Regards,
> Marius Karthaus
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