[systemd-devel] a way to limit restarts?

[Nekrasov, Alexander]

Totally missed those. Thanks. Will OnFailure= be activated when the limit is hit? The manual only directly describes StartLimitAction= which isn’t exactly what’s required


From: Mantas Mikulėnas [mailto:grawity at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 1:05 PM
To: Nekrasov, Alexander
Cc: systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] a way to limit restarts?

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Nekrasov, Alexander <alexander.nekrasov at emc.com<mailto:alexander.nekrasov at emc.com>> wrote:
Hi,

There’s a routine need to support this scenario: a service runs that can fail and needs to be restarted.

But if it just keeps failing it doesn’t make sense to keep restarting forever, it’s just overhead and the system is stuck. So in that case 1) the service needs to be left stopped in “failed” state, and 2) whatever failure action was specified – that action needs to be run.

Ideally, need to be able to limit restarts to a number per period of time, such as 3 restarts in 10 minutes, etc.

Sure, see StartLimit{Interval,Burst,Action}= in systemd.service(5).

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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com<mailto:grawity at gmail.com>>
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