[erlang-questions] Supervisor gets killed if a worker is killed

[Ryan Zezeski]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Tushar Deshpande
<tushar.erlang@REDACTED>wrote:

>
> The worker process performed as expected.  But, when
> I killed the worker using Appmon, I observed that the
> supervisor too was killed.  Why did it happen?
>
> Here's the childspec for the worker process
> {hsr_server, {hsr_server, start_link, []}, permanent, 2000, worker,
> [hsr_server]}
>
> hsr_server is the worker process
>
>
In this case, the more important thing is your supervisor spec.  I'm
guessing the maximum restarts is set to 0.  After the first restart the
supervisor will have reached it's restart threshold, kill all worker
processes and then itself.

http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.html#id66694

-Ryan