[systemd-devel] Systemd flapping detection

[Mirco Tischler]

2011/11/2 tsuraan <tsuraan at gmail.com>:
> Is there a way to disable systemd's flapping detection that causes it
> to give up on starting services that exit too quickly?  The closest
> thing I can find to controlling this is the Restart= option, but that
> doesn't seem to do what I need.  My situation is that each PC is a
> node of a cluster.  When a PC reboots, it can take a while for the
> cluster to recognize that it has left, and until that happens attempts
> to rejoin the cluster are rejected.  The daemon in charge of joining
> the cluster dies when it cannot join, and then systemd restarts it.
> The problem is that systemd gets sick of restarting it after a while
> (5 tries?), and then the node is just broken.  So, I could have the
> daemon loop until it can join, but since I have a handful of daemons
> that behave this way, and systemd is really good at cleaning up and
> restarting things, I'd like to let systemd do the restarting work.  Is
> there anything I can tune to make systemd not give up, or do I just
> need to rewrite all the main functions of my daemons to do the looping
> themselves?
Hi
RestartSec allows you to set the time waited before restarting so that
you can avoid systemd needing to restart the service too often before
it starts successfully.
> Also, are there any docs that detail how systemd does its flapping
> detection?  Is there some time that a service has to have been running
> in order for it to not be considered flapping, or an exit code that
> systemd looks for?  Any details would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!