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I am using forever with my project. What do these options do:

  • minUptime
  • spinSleepTime

I didn't understand from GitHub page.

Dan Dascalescu
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Forever's documentation explains each briefly:

--minUptime      Minimum uptime (millis) for a script to not be considered "spinning"
--spinSleepTime  Time to wait (millis) between launches of a spinning script.

A "spinning" application is one that keeps failing/crashing shortly after a restart.

--minUptime sets the minimum amount of time that an application is expected to run. If it crashes before that limit, it's considered to be "spinning" or problematic.

--spinSleepTime sets an amount of time that forever will wait before trying to restart a "spinning" application again.

Collectively, they help prevent having an application rapidly being restarted only to crash each time.

Jonathan Lonowski
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    Is there a way to prevent the app from being restarted at all, and/or report that it has crashed too many times? There's a `-m` option, but it doesn't distinguish between spinning crashes and crashes after the application has launched properly. – Dan Dascalescu Mar 07 '14 at 00:56