feature request: delay restart before status FATAL

[guettli]

Use case:

during a software update the server can't restart since some needed python modules are not available yet. Supervisor retries N times (N comes from config. AFAIK defaults to 3).

After N fails the state FATAL gets entered.

In my use case the programm entered state FATAL although just some seconds later the restart would have been successfull.

Can you understand this use case?

A possible solution would be to use a delay in unit "seconds": After N failed retries wait M seconds and then try again. In my case this should be done to infinity (endless loop).

[mgalgs]

👍

A delaybetweenretries parameter would be useful (bonus points for exponential backoff)

[aztlan2k]

👍 this would be really useful.

allowing us to configure how long between retries would be great. Allowing for an backoff would also help.

i think it would be great if we could also specify a retry count of infinity (never give up) in combination with a sane value for the delay_between_retries.

[mmh]

+1, would be useful.

[willybarro]

👍 would be great. There's already a PR with that feature #509, but it's not automergeable, and there's no discussion on it.

[mrook]

+1

[nicwest]

+1

[arinto]

+1

[nereusz]

+1 This would be very useful for me

[CheatCodes]

+1

+1

[jsmirnov]

+1

[guettli]

Has someone enough knowledge to create patch for this?

[dbpolito]

I would love to see this too, so 👍

[detailyang]

+1

[oryband]

👍