X-Git-Url: http://git.iain.cx/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=README.txt;h=88a729078321e1469a9a4a68a6efe9d1588915ff;hb=70453ecb690ff5d6008677ced1016d0235bee329;hp=5388d03a6b6e4f39edbb87dae53e15edf65c3be8;hpb=2e5e7a1de4503782dee0910da3331a05464ca596;p=nssm.git diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 5388d03..88a7290 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager -Version 2.5, 2010-09-25 +Version 2.7, 2011-01-25 NSSM is a service helper program similar to srvany and cygrunsrv. It can start any application as an NT service and will restart the service if it @@ -68,8 +68,15 @@ action if/when the application dies. With no configuration from you, NSSM will try to restart itself if it notices that the application died but you didn't send it a stop signal. NSSM will -keep trying, pausing 30 seconds between each attempt, until the service is -successfully started or you send it a stop signal. +keep trying, pausing between each attempt, until the service is successfully +started or you send it a stop signal. + +NSSM will pause an increasingly longer time between subsequent restart attempts +if the service fails to start in a timely manner, up to a maximum of 60 seconds. +This is so it does not consume an excessive amount of CPU time trying to start +a failed application over and over again. If you identify the cause of the +failure and don't want to wait you can use the Windows service console to +send a continue signal to NSSM and it will retry within a few seconds. NSSM will look in the registry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\\Parameters\AppExit for @@ -158,6 +165,10 @@ Credits Thanks to Bernard Loh for finding a bug with service recovery. Thanks to Benjamin Mayrargue (www.softlion.com) for adding 64-bit support. Thanks to Joel Reingold for spotting a command line truncation bug. +Thanks to Arve Knudsen for spotting that child processes of the monitored +application could be left running on service shutdown, and that a missing +registry value for AppDirectory confused NSSM. +Thanks to Peter Wagemans and Laszlo Kereszt for suggesting throttling restarts. Licence -------