Stop restarting on crashing code

[mikl]

I have been using Supervisor for development, and it irks me that if I make a syntax error or something else that will make Node crash immediately when launched, Supervisor will just continue to restart the process, several times a second.

Wouldn't it be a safe assumption that a process that dies within its first second of runtime should not be restarted?

[iangreenleaf]

I agree, the instant infinite crash loop is a bit annoying. However, I always found it equally annoying when it bailed and I had to tab back into that terminal to restart supervisor just because I made a syntax error.

I've been thinking the best solution might be an exponential backoff, where the first crash within a given time period gets no delay, but subsequent crashes get longer and longer delays, up to 5s or something reasonable like that.