NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager\r
-Version 2.5, 2010-09-25\r
+Version 2.7, 2011-01-25\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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With no configuration from you, NSSM will try to restart itself if it notices\r
that the application died but you didn't send it a stop signal. NSSM will\r
-keep trying, pausing 30 seconds between each attempt, until the service is\r
-successfully started or you send it a stop signal.\r
+keep trying, pausing between each attempt, until the service is successfully\r
+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
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NSSM will look in the registry under\r
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppExit for\r
Thanks to Bernard Loh for finding a bug with service recovery.\r
Thanks to Benjamin Mayrargue (www.softlion.com) for adding 64-bit support.\r
Thanks to Joel Reingold for spotting a command line truncation bug.\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
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Licence\r
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