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Sergey
Sergey

Reputation: 99

systemd equivalent of upstart's "respawn limit"

I am trying to make a systemd file that will monitor a service and restart it if it crashes. Here's the tricky part: If the service crashes more than 5 times in a minute, I want to mark it as failed and stop trying to automatically restart it. With Upstart, this was easily done with "respawn limit."

Systemd can rate-limit the automatic restarting with StartLimitIntervalSec, but that's not what I want.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2454

Answers (1)

Mark Stosberg
Mark Stosberg

Reputation: 13391

Welcome to StackOverflow. For systemd questions, the Unix & Linux StackExchange site is a more appropriate placeto ask in the future.

It appears that you are looking for StartLimitInterval=60, which allows you to set the number of seconds to limit by. Around systemd version 230, this is renamed to StartLimitIntervalSec=.

This would be combined with StartLimitBurst=5 to set a max of 5 starts per minute.

There's also StartLimitAction but it default to the value of none, which already does what you want in this case.

You can find these documented in man systemd.unit. If you aren't sure where to find documentation on a directive, you can use man systemd.directive to find where any directive is documented.

Upvotes: 2

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