From 768fdfd419040376a0ac9de62a391151bf29ed0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex <alexpolo2850@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 18:31:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add PM2 restart_delay and max_restarts to prevent crash-loop
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When DB_PASSWORD is missing on startup, server exits and PM2 was
restarting every ~660ms flooding backend.log with ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR.
Now waits 5s between restarts and caps at 10 attempts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 database/pm2.config.js | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/database/pm2.config.js b/database/pm2.config.js
index 3dbf2ef..f7e9604 100644
--- a/database/pm2.config.js
+++ b/database/pm2.config.js
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ module.exports = {
       script: './server.js',
       cwd: __dirname,
       watch: false,
+      restart_delay: 5000,
+      max_restarts: 10,
       env: {
         NODE_ENV: 'production',
         PORT: 5000,