Re: Respawn limit for runsv?

[Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> > Do you have any concrete example that illustrates the "problem".
> 
> Thanks, but I'm looking at providing a solution to a general class of 
> problems.

There is no general class of problem unless you can provide a single 
instance.

>  My question is simply whether or not anyone has investigated 
> adding this sort of feature to runsv before -- if not, I'll probably 

Why would they, if there isn't a real problem?

> spend some of my time trying to add this behavior, since respawning 
> software is a reasonably common problem (for example, this is why the 
> SysV Init package under Linux will stop respawning a process for a few 
> minutes in this situation).

One of the reasons people chose to use daemontools (and subsequently 
runit) was to get away from such ad-hoc behaviour ...

You say that respawning software is a reasonably common problem. Whenever 
I've seen it, it was a configuration problem. Or rather, there was a 
configuration problem, and the respawning was a symptom. I didn't see the 
respawning as a problem. The automated respawning is a feature.

You asked for thoughts. I've given them.

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Charlie