[pve-devel] [PATCH manager] services: add restart on-failure to pvescheduler, pvestatd and spiceproxy

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 26.05.25 um 10:45 schrieb Fiona Ebner:
> Same rationale as 4fd2027e ("service: add restart on-failure to
> pveproxy and pvedaemon") which added the setting for the pveproxy and
> pvedaemon services.
> 
> Suggested for pvestatd in the community forum:
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/165597/post-773210

Fine by me in general, but might be good to recheck if the overall behavior
of the mechanism makes sense, especially with the default RestartSec=100ms
(man systemd.service) and the default StartLimitBurst=5 (man systemd.unit),
which basically means that if the problematic condition is still present,
it will be restart 5 times in a total span of 500 ms, and then not get
restarted anymore. The StartLimitIntervalSec=10s default is also a limiting
factor, but when the services fails fast early it's unlikely to be hit.

Maybe increasing the interval between restarts a bit (0.5 to 1s?) and/or
the burst rate (10 to 20 times) might make sense to survive more temporary
issues would make more sense – there certainly isn't one size fits all here,
but 5 times in 500 ms is IMO not that ideal for our services here.

That said, applying this now should not make the status quo worse, beside
filling the logs with restart failures, making the limited output included
in the systemctl status commands less useful, but that's hardly a real
problem.