[Linux-cluster] Limit service restarting times

[Lon Hohberger]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 10:56 +0100, Juan Ramon Martin Blanco wrote:
> First of all, hello and many thanks everyone, this list has helped me
> a lot in the cluster world ;)
> 
> I have configured a 2 node cluster with RHEL 5.2, shared storage and
> GFS2.
> I have configured several services with our company own software. This
> software evolves fast because we are in active development, so
> sometimes cores are dumped. When this happens, the cluster tries to
> restart the failing service again and again...filling the service's
> filesystem with cores. 
> Is there any way to limit the number of retries for a certain service?

<service max_restarts="x" restart_expire="y" .../>

max_restarts="x" 

 * Maximum tolerated.  Ex: 3 means the *4th* restart will fail

restart_expire="y"

 * After this # of seconds time, a restart is forgotten.

-- Lon