Comment by hda111
3 months ago
Some defaults are not good for servers. For example, systemd gives up after a few tries to restart a service. This is really annoying for server administrators when they don’t know about the bad defaults.
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2024-01-17-systemd-indef...
If a service fails to startup after n times, I most certainly want to take a look at it as it might as well just end up corrupting its state even more - I don't think it's a fair assumption that most errors will just go away on their own. Nonetheless, it can be configured declaratively as a single line, and as you mention, the default can be changed.