Re: "Back off" setting for crashing services with s6+openrc?

[Oliver Schad <oliver.schad@automatic-server.com>]

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:21:46 -0700
John W Higgins <wishdev@gmail.com> wrote:

> Good Day,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 1:13 PM Tor Rune Skoglund <trs@fourc.eu>
> wrote: ...
> 
> > As a generic question, is there any setting with this s6+openrc
> > config that would make s6 "back off" a configurable number of
> > seconds before doing the restart?
> >
> >  
> Does something as simple as changing your run script to be something
> like
> 
> run_my_crashing_app || sleep 10
> 
> Work? The run script will sit there for 10 seconds if your app fails.
> Not built in - but should accomplish the task pretty easily.

You could propably outsource the backoff mechanism, which can handle
some statistics.

Something like that:
https://pastebin.com/aH3EDGLG

You would use it in your run script as:

exec with_backoff my_daemon

Best Regards
Oli

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