man: mention start rate limiting in Restart= doc (#4637)
authorLucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:20:44 +0000 (00:20 +0100)
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:20:44 +0000 (18:20 -0500)
man/systemd.service.xml

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         or signal is specified in
         <varname>RestartForceExitStatus=</varname> (see below).</para>
 
+        <para>Note that service restart is subject to unit start rate
+        limiting configured with <varname>StartLimitIntervalSec=</varname>
+        and <varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname>, see
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+        for details.</para>
+
         <para>Setting this to <option>on-failure</option> is the
         recommended choice for long-running services, in order to
         increase reliability by attempting automatic recovery from