NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager\r
-Version 2.7, 2011-01-25\r
+Version 2.10, 2011-10-11\r
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NSSM is a service helper program similar to srvany and cygrunsrv. It can \r
start any application as an NT service and will restart the service if it \r
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Full documentation can be found online at\r
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- http://iain.cx/src/nssm/\r
+ http://nssm.cc/\r
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Since version 2.0, the GUI can be bypassed by entering all appropriate \r
options on the command line.\r
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Since version 2.5, NSSM respects environment variables in its parameters.\r
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+Since version 2.8, NSSM tries harder to shut down the managed application\r
+gracefully and throttles restart attempts if the application doesn't run\r
+for a minimum amount of time.\r
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Usage\r
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started or you send it a stop signal.\r
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NSSM will pause an increasingly longer time between subsequent restart attempts\r
-if the service fails to start in a timely manner, up to a maximum of 60 seconds.\r
-This is so it does not consume an excessive amount of CPU time trying to start\r
-a failed application over and over again. If you identify the cause of the\r
-failure and don't want to wait you can use the Windows service console to\r
-send a continue signal to NSSM and it will retry within a few seconds.\r
+if the service fails to start in a timely manner, up to a maximum of four\r
+minutes. This is so it does not consume an excessive amount of CPU time trying\r
+to start a failed application over and over again. If you identify the cause\r
+of the failure and don't want to wait you can use the Windows service console\r
+(where the service will be shown in Paused state) to send a continue signal to\r
+NSSM and it will retry within a few seconds.\r
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+By default, NSSM defines "a timely manner" to be within 1500 milliseconds.\r
+You can change the threshold for the service by setting the number of\r
+milliseconds as a REG_DWORD value in the registry at\r
+HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppThrottle.\r
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NSSM will look in the registry under\r
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppExit for\r
Thanks to Arve Knudsen for spotting that child processes of the monitored\r
application could be left running on service shutdown, and that a missing\r
registry value for AppDirectory confused NSSM.\r
-Thanks to Peter Wagemans and Laszlo Kereszt for suggesting throttling restarts.\r
+Thanks to Peter Wagemans and Laszlo Keresztfalvi for suggesting throttling restarts.\r
+Thanks to Eugene Lifshitz for finding an edge case in CreateProcess() and for\r
+advising how to build messages.mc correctly in paths containing spaces.\r
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Licence\r
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