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1. The given default for respawn_max is wrong.
2. The example for respawn_period is nonsensical.

This fixes #311.
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Chloe Kudryavtsev 2019-06-09 23:51:06 -04:00 committed by William Hubbs
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@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ respawn_max=x
``` ```
This is the maximum number of times to respawn a supervised process This is the maximum number of times to respawn a supervised process
during the given respawn period. The default is unlimited. during the given respawn period.
The default is 10. 0 means unlimited.
``` sh ``` sh
respawn_period=seconds respawn_period=seconds
@ -101,6 +102,10 @@ respawn_period=seconds
This works in conjunction with respawn_max and respawn_delay above to This works in conjunction with respawn_max and respawn_delay above to
decide if a process should not be respawned for some reason. decide if a process should not be respawned for some reason.
For example, if respawn_period is 60, respawn_max is 2 and respawn_delay For example, if respawn period is 10 and respawn_max is 2, the process
is 3 and a process dies more than 4 times, the process will not be would need to die 3 times within 10 seconds to no longer be respawned.
respawned and the supervisor will terminate. Note that respawn_delay will delay all of this, so in the above scenario
a respawn_delay of greater than 5 will cause infinite respawns.
By default, this is unset and respawn_max applies to the entire lifetime
of the service.