From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/699 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charlie Brady Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: Respawn limit for runsv? Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:14:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108167154 17012 80.91.229.2 (12 Feb 2005 00:12:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:12:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-938-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Sat Feb 12 01:12:33 2005 Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14] ident=qmailr) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Czkth-0000oc-3X for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:12:29 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 25565 invoked by uid 76); 12 Feb 2005 00:14:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 25559 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2005 00:14:45 -0000 X-X-Sender: charlieb@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com Original-To: Lars Kellogg-Stedman In-Reply-To: X-MailScanner-To: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:699 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:699 On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: > Has anyone investigated adding some sort of respawn limiter to runit? I > figure that if a program is crashing immediately every time it runs, it > probably doesn't need to be restarted -- which just floods the logs with > error message, perhaps overwriting critical log data about what > precipitated the problem in the first place. The problem is obviously ongoing, and will be able to be diagnosed without earlier logs. Certainly the direct cause will be diagnosable. If there's an indirect cause, it won't necessarily be logged in this process's log files. Do you have any concrete example that illustrates the "problem". I wouldn't be happy to see additional complexity without strong justification. --- Charlie