From: Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:47:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Provide more reasonable defaults for supervise-daemon

The vendor's default parameters for the supervise-daemon are unreasonable
or even unusable for most of the services (empirically found), especially
respawn_delay=0 (i.e. respawn crashed service immediately).

--- a/etc/rc.conf
+++ b/etc/rc.conf
@@ -315,3 +315,20 @@
 # If this is set to no, we do not send sigkill to all processes in the
 # cgroup.
 #rc_send_sigkill="YES"
+
+##############################################################################
+# SUPERVISE DAEMON CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
+# These variables sets more reasonable defaults for supervise-daemon(8).
+# They may be overriden on a per service basis.
+
+# Wait this number of seconds before restarting a daemon after it crashes.
+respawn_delay=2
+
+# Sets the maximum number of times a daemon will be respawned during a respawn
+# period. If a daemon dies more than this number of times during a respawn
+# period, supervise-daemon(8) will give up trying to respawn it and exit.
+# 0 means unlimited.
+respawn_max=5
+
+# Sets the length in seconds of a respawn period.
+respawn_period=1800