(In reply to Stefan Hundhammer from comment #7) > Better yet, systemd should not try forever to restart *anything*, or at least > drastically increase the interval between attempts after a number of failures. You might set/change DefaultRestartSec in /etc/systemd/system.conf see systemd-system.conf(5) ... or set per service unit the parameters RestartPreventExitStatus= or even harder with Restart= see systemd.service(5)