Throttle restarts.

[nssm.git] / README.txt

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@@ -68,8 +68,15 @@ action if/when the application dies.
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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
+\r
+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
 \r
 NSSM will look in the registry under\r
 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppExit for\r
@@ -161,6 +168,7 @@ Thanks to Joel Reingold for spotting a command line truncation bug.
 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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