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authorLucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>2016-11-11 00:20:44 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-11-10 18:20:44 -0500
commit6d24947638dd3922c12a3f33eecf54cb8e51b908 (patch)
treed46336bd398f23a2fddb4bae96c6b416df32d118 /man
parent4553df9fd7efdca00ce54ec195b61a019b67a6e7 (diff)
man: mention start rate limiting in Restart= doc (#4637)
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diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
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@@ -663,6 +663,12 @@
or signal is specified in
<varname>RestartForceExitStatus=</varname> (see below).</para>
+ <para>Note that service restart is subject to unit start rate
+ limiting configured with <varname>StartLimitIntervalSec=</varname>
+ and <varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname>, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for details.</para>
+
<para>Setting this to <option>on-failure</option> is the
recommended choice for long-running services, in order to
increase reliability by attempting automatic recovery from